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23 produkter
The Palace of Secrets
Béroalde de Verville and Renaissance Conceptions of Knowledge
Av Neil Kenny
Inbunden, 1991
2948 kr
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During the Renaissance, very divergent conceptions of knowledge were debated. Dominant among these was encyclopedism, which treated knowledge as an ordered and unified circle of learning in which branches were logically related to each other. By contrast, writers like Montaigne saw human knowledge …
Death and Tenses
Posthumous Presence in Early Modern France
Av Neil Kenny
E-bok, 2015
401 kr
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In what tense should we refer to the dead? The question has long been asked, from Cicero to Julian Barnes. Answering it is partly a matter of grammar and stylistic convention. But the hesitation, annoyance, and even distress that can be caused by the "wrong" tense suggests that more may be at …
Born to Write
Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France
Av Neil Kenny
E-bok, 2020
1729 kr
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It is easy to forget how deeply embedded in social hierarchy was the literature and learning that has come down to us from the early modern European world. From fiction to philosophy, from poetry to history, works of all kinds emerged from and through the social hierarchy that was a fundamental …
Born to Write
Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France
Av Neil Kenny
E-bok, 2020
1729 kr
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It is easy to forget how deeply embedded in social hierarchy was the literature and learning that has come down to us from the early modern European world. From fiction to philosophy, from poetry to history, works of all kinds emerged from and through the social hierarchy that was a fundamental …
Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
Av Neil Kenny
Inbunden, 2022
1502 kr
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The literature and literate knowledge that were produced in Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries emanated from societies that were rigidly hierarchical. What difference did that fact make to the literature and literate knowledge? How did social hierarchy shape the production of …
Death and Tenses
Posthumous Presence in Early Modern France
Av Neil Kenny
Inbunden, 2015
1976 kr
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In what tense should we refer to the dead? The question has long been asked, from Cicero to Julian Barnes. Answering it is partly a matter of grammar and stylistic convention. But the hesitation, annoyance, even distress that can be caused by the 'wrong' tense suggests that more may be at …
Death and Tenses
Posthumous Presence in Early Modern France
Av Neil Kenny
Häftad, 2020
467 kr
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In what tense should we refer to the dead? The question has long been asked, from Cicero to Julian Barnes. Answering it is partly a matter of grammar and stylistic convention. But the hesitation, annoyance, and even distress that can be caused by the "wrong" tense suggests that more may be at …
Born to Write
Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France
Av Neil Kenny
Inbunden, 2020
1935 kr
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It is easy to forget how deeply embedded in social hierarchy was the literature and learning that has come down to us from the early modern European world. From fiction to philosophy, from poetry to history, works of all kinds emerged from and through the social hierarchy that was a fundamental …
Rabelais and the Social Order
An Essay in Cognitive Criticism
Av Neil Kenny
Inbunden, 2026
1897 kr
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This book asks two questions. The first question concerns one of the greatest figures of world literature: François Rabelais. What do his sixteenth-century fictions communicate about the power relations that shape what social groups do (or refrain from doing) to each other--killing, wounding, …
Rabelais and the Social Order
An Essay in Cognitive Criticism
Av Neil Kenny
E-bok, 2026
1125 kr
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This book asks two questions. The first question concerns one of the greatest figures of world literature: François Rabelais. What do his sixteenth-century fictions communicate about the power relations that shape what social groups do (or refrain from doing) to each other--killing, wounding, …
Rabelais and the Social Order
An Essay in Cognitive Criticism
Av Neil Kenny
E-bok, 2026
1125 kr
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This book asks two questions. The first question concerns one of the greatest figures of world literature: François Rabelais. What do his sixteenth-century fictions communicate about the power relations that shape what social groups do (or refrain from doing) to each other--killing, wounding, …
The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany
Av Neil Kenny
Inbunden, 2004
1599 kr
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Why did people argue about curiosity in France, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, so much more than today? Why was curiosity a fashionable topic in early modern conduct manuals, university dissertations, scientific treatises, sermons, newspapers, …
Retrospectives
Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History
Av Neil Kenny
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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Retrospectives: Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History
Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought
Other Times, Other Places
Av Neil Kenny, Nicholas Hammond
Häftad, 2008
433 kr
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The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's "Essays", Rabelais' comic fictions, Ronsard's poetry, Calvin's theology. These and numerous other extraordinary writings emerged from and …
Retrospectives
Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History
Av Neil Kenny
E-bok, 2017
956 kr
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"Terence Cave''s work has made a major contribution to the rethinking of the relationship between literature, history and culture over the last half-century. Retrospectives brings together substantially revised versions of studies written since 1970: together they constitute a searching …
Retrospectives
Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History
Av Neil Kenny
E-bok, 2017
956 kr
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"Terence Cave''s work has made a major contribution to the rethinking of the relationship between literature, history and culture over the last half-century. Retrospectives brings together substantially revised versions of studies written since 1970: together they constitute a searching …
Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought
Other Times, Other Places
Av Neil Kenny
E-bok, 2014
466 kr
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The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe''s greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne''s Essays , Rabelais'' comic fictions, Ronsard''s poetry, Calvin''s theology. These and numerous other extraordinary writings emerged from and …
Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought
Other Times, Other Places
Av Neil Kenny
E-bok, 2014
466 kr
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The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe''s greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne''s Essays , Rabelais'' comic fictions, Ronsard''s poetry, Calvin''s theology. These and numerous other extraordinary writings emerged from and …
Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France: Studies in Honour of Stephen Bamforth
Nottingham French Studies Volume 56, Issue 3
Av Neil Kenny
Häftad, 2017
321 kr
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Explores the entwinement of early modern text, knowledge and wonder, and their connections in FranceA triple nexus of text, knowledge, and wonder permeated much literary, learned, and ceremonial culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. There were endless variations on the combination, …
Montaigne in Transit
Essays in Honour of Ian MacLean
Av Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
223 kr
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Retrospectives
Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History
Av Neil Kenny
Inbunden, 2008
2858 kr
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Retrospectives: Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History
Montaigne in Transit: Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean
Av Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar
Inbunden, 2017
1516 kr
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