| Histoire Critique de la Litterature Latine: de Virgile a Huysmans Contributor(s): Laurens, Pierre (Author) |
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ISBN: 2251444815 ISBN-13: 9782251444819 Publisher: Les Belles Lettres OUR PRICE: $51.48 Product Type: Hardcover Language: French Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| LCCN: 2014419354 |
| Series: Romans, Essais, Poesie, Documents |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6.7" W x 9.7" (3.15 lbs) 656 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: English summary: What we know about Latin literature, and which is presented to us in this flawless chronological framework, is a construction, an appropriation, the fruit of a heroic conquest, works saved from oblivion through the effort of transcribers, rediscovered by the likes of tireless manuscript hunters like Petrarch and Poggio Bracciolini, restored to their textual and historic authenticity by philologists consumed by ardor eruditionis, circulated by publishers and translators, and constantly reinterpreted and reinvented through a long series of vagaries and impassioned debate updating the canon. This debate ventured beyond the Academy and inflamed the Republic of Letters, notably mobilising such privileged readers as the leading writers of the day. Thus these pages, which tell the story behind this history, not only bring us Virgil and Ovid along with Politian, Justus Lipsius and Lachmann, but also such greats as Montaigne, Hugo, Laurent Tailhade and Huysmans.Made possible by the countless endeavours kindled, beyond Humanism, by interest in the history of their reception, the chosen viewpoint directed the flow of this book. The first part focuses on writers whose polyvalent work distinguishes them from the rest, and who are grouped under the title - borrowed from Dante - "la bella scuola." Their four names, which have never lost their lustre, remain major stars in the sphere of Latin literature: Virgil, Cicero, Horace and Ovid. Next is a vast zodiac of names representing prose and poetry's leading genres: Philosophy (Lucretius, Seneca, the Platonisms), History, Theatre, Novels, the Poetic Genres (Epic, Elogy, Satire, Epigramme, Fable and Silva, the "Minor" Poets), Letter Writers and Orators, and lastly the Theory of Rhetoric. A third part is devoted to Technical (Pliny, Vitruvius, etc.) and erudite (polygraphers and grammarians) literature. Penned in Pierre Laurens' scholarly and sensitive style and enriched with numerous translated excerpts, the work's fourth and final part highlights this stardust known as "Unknown Latin Literature." French description: Ce que nous savons de la litterature latine et qui nous est presente dans un cadre chronologique impeccable est une construction, une appropriation, fruit d'une conquete heroique: des oeuvres arrachees au neant par le travail des copistes, retrouvees par les Petrarque, les Poggio Bracciolini, infatigables chasseurs de manuscrits, rendues a leur verite textuelle et historique par des philologues brulant de l'ardor eruditionis, diffusees par les editeurs, les traducteurs; constamment reinterpretees, reinventees a travers une longue serie d'aleas et de debats passionnes qui reactualisent le canon, debats qui depassent l'academie, enflamment la Republique des Lettres, mobilisent notamment ces lecteurs privilegies que sont les grands ecrivains. Aussi ces pages, qui racontent l'histoire de cette histoire, offrent-elles, a cote de Virgile et d'Ovide, a cote de Politien, de Juste Lipse, de Lachmann, les noms de Montaigne, Hugo, Laurent Tailhade, Huysmans.Rendu possible par les nombreux travaux qu'a suscites, par dela l'Humanisme, l'interet porte a l'histoire de la reception, le point de vue choisi commande l'organisation du livre. En premier lieu, detaches des autres par leur oeuvre polyvalente et reunis sous le titre, repris a Dante, de La Bella scuola, quatre noms qui n'ont jamais disparu de l'horizon, astres majeurs au ciel de la litterature latine: Virgile, Ciceron, Horace, Ovide. Suivent, vaste zodiaque, les representants des principaux genres de prose et de poesie: Philosophie (Lucrece, Seneque, les Platonismes), Histoire, Theatre, Roman, les Genres poetiques (Epopee, Elegie, Satire, Epigramme, Fable et Silve, les Poetes mineurs ), Epistoliers et Orateurs et enfin Theorie de l'eloquence. Une troisieme partie est consacree a la Litterature technique (Pline, Vitruve, etc.) et erudite (les polygraphes, les grammairiens). Ecrit sous la plume savante et sensible de Pierre Laurens, enrichi de nombreux extraits en traduction, l'ouvrage se clot par une quatrieme partie consacree a cette poussiere d'etoiles qu'on appelle la Litterature latine inconnue .Pierre Laurens, correspondant de l'Institut, professeur emerite a la Sorbonne ou il a occupe la chaire de Litterature latine de la Renaissance, est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages, dont: Anthologie grecque, Livre IX, deuxieme partie, et X (1974 et 2011); MusAe reduces (1975); Baltasar Gracian, La Pointe ou l'Art du genie, trad. (1983); le Commentaire sur le Banquet de Platon de Marsile Ficin, ed. et trad. (2002); l'Africa de Petrarque, ed. Et trad. (2006); Anthologie de la poesie lyrique latine de la Renaissance (2004); La derniere Muse latine, Douze lectures poetiques, de Claudien a la generation baroque (2008); L'age de l'inscription (2010); L'Abeille dans l'ambre (1989, edition revue et augmentee 2012). |
