Joie de vivre in French literature and culture: essays in honour of Michael Freeman
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Rodopi 2009
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Contents; Notes on contributors; Michael Freeman: joie de vivre, joies du livre; I Introduction; II The joys of Romance; III 'Balades & Rondeaux nouueaux fort ioyeulx': joie de vivre in a Renaissance miscellany; IV Joie de vivre in Des Priers's Nouvelles Rcrations et joyeux devis; V Comic interludes in French Renaissance prose romance: Aldno's amours in Gerard d'Euphrate (1549); VI Melons and wine: Montaigne and joie de vivre in Renaissance France; VII 'Une vie douce, heureuse et amiable': a Christian joie de vivre in Saint Franois de Sales
The apparent self-sufficiency of joie de vivre means that, despite the widespread use of the phrase since the late nineteenth century, the concept has rarely been explored critically. Joie de vivre does not readily surrender itself to examination, for it is in a sense too busy being what it is. However, as the essays in this collection reveal, joie de vivre can be as complex and variable a state as the more negative emotions or experiences that art and literature habitually evoke. This volume provides an urgently needed study of an intriguing and under-explored area of French literature and cu
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ISBN:1441616934
9042028963
9781441616937
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