| Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance: The Undiscovered Country Contributor(s): Williams, Wes (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198159404 ISBN-13: 9780198159407 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $175.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1999 Annotation: This is the first full-length study of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Montaigne, Erasmus, Petrarch, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. This wide-ranging and timely new work aims to question the ways in which recent theoretical and historical research in the area has determined the differences between fictional worlds and the real. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 263.042 |
| LCCN: 98027486 |
| Lexile Measure: 1480 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.28 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first full-length study of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Montaigne, Erasmus, Petrarch, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. This wide-ranging and timely new work aims to question the ways in which recent theoretical and historical research in the area has determined the differences between fictional worlds and the real. |