Autor(en)

Tucker, George Hugo:

Verlag / Jahr

OXFORD UNIV PRESS., 1990.

Format / Einband

14,5 x 2,5 x 22,4 cm, Original Leinen kaschiert mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth laminated with dust jacket. XIV, 304 Seiten / p.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 554 g

ISBN

0198158653

EAN

9780198158653

Bestell-Nr

1181531

Bemerkungen

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Du Bellay’s poetic career was short but intense. From the literary polemic of his Deffence (1549), which launched the Pleiade, until his premature death, eleven years sufficed to establish him, together with Ronsard, as the leading French poet of his time. His output is marked by constant innovation. The whole appears as a continuous quest for a poetic identity, ever defining itself through antithesis with Ronsard. The main peripeteia of that quest is the poet’s abandonment of Paris for Rome (1553-7); the climax, his questioning meditation on the Eternal City’s ruin and on the immortalizing power ascribed to his own art. -- In this unique study of Du Bellay and his Antiquitez de Rome, Dr Tucker makes this complex sonnet sequence more accessible to the modern reader, highlighting its rich intertextual framework in Classical, neo-Latin, and vernacular literature. He also redresses a modem critical imbalance. Du Bellay and his immediate readership identified the Antiquitez, rather than the Regrets, as his major work. Tucker demonstrates its central importance within the poet’s production, and further situates it within a whole tradition of reflection upon Rome and her destiny from Classical times onwards. The question of her fall (prefiguring the end of the Universe itself) provides a vast framework for the poet’s other continuing meditation upon the nature and value of poetry in relation to the world. The Antiquitez are also seen to represent the ultimate step in the development of a poetic style and sensibility in diametric opposition to Ronsard’s. Tucker further relates the collection to the literary and scholarly context of Du Bellay’s Rome. ISBN 9780198158653

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