French Renaissance studies in honor of Isidore Silver, Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University / edited by Frieda S Brown

Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Internally, bright and clear. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 368 p. : port. ; 23 cm. Notes; Bibliography of Isidore Silver : p. 13-17. Includes bibliographical references. Contributions in English and French. Contents; Isidore Silver : biography of a humanist / Frieda S. Brown -- Bibliography of Isidore Silver -- Part I: Essays on Ronsard. Ronsard and the "Wall of water" / Elizabeth Armstrong -- Ronsard et l'Institution pour l'adolescence de Charles IX / Robert Aulotte -- Fables of flight in Rosard's poetry / Victor E. Graham -- Remarques sur la structure des recueils de Ronsard / Raymond Lebe?gue -- Ronsard's poems to Jean Brinon / I.D. McFarlane -- Belleforest, the first critic of Ronsard's Franciade? / Body L.O. Richter -- The hidden meaning of Ronsard's Hymne de l'hyver / Malcolm C. Smith -- Les discours politiques de Ronsard : e?tudes de variantes / Louis Terreaux -- Autour du dernier sonnet de Ronsard : de la vieillesse a? la mort, du cygne au signe / Henri Weber -- Part II: Other studies on the French Renaissance. Amadis Jamyn, translator of Homer / Samuel M. Carrington -- Note sur Le songe de Du Bellay / Michel Dassonville -- Deux e?loges pothumes de Jean Dorat / Andre? Desguine -- Montaigne and the problem of consistency / Donald M. Frame -- "Prince humaniste ou prince chevaleresque" : a French Renaissance debate / Robert E. Hallowell -- The French editions of Des Pe?riers' Tales : a bibliographical study / James Woodrow Hassell, Jr. -- The hyperbole of dream : Du Bellay's Songe / Richard A. Katz -- The good and the beautiful in Montaigne / Abraham C. Keller -- Interpenetration in Rabelais's Pantagruel : a study of the lion-fox episode / Raymond C. La Charite? -- Mythological imagery as counterpoint : Agrippa D'Aubigne? / John C. Lapp -- Glory and anti-glory in France's age of glory / Leonora Cohen Rosenfield -- Troubles au Couvent de Tarascon (Marguerite de Navarre, Guillaume du Maine, Claude de Bectoz et Denys Faucher / V.L. Saulnier -- The complexities of Marguerite de Navarre's secular theatre / W.L. Wiley -- Maurice Sce?ve's scientific love poetry in his Blasons et De?lie / Dudley Wilson -- From self-concept to self-knowledge : death and nature in Montainge's "De la phisionomie" / Ian J. Winter. Subjects; Ronsard, Pierre de 1524-1585. Silver, Isidore 1906-. Ronsard, Pierre de 1524-1585. French literature 16th century History and criticism. Renaissance France. French literature. French literature 16th century History and criticism. 1 Kg.…