The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyric : : The Poetics of Introspection in Maurice Scève's Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu (1544) / / Michael Giordano.

The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyric examines the poetics of meditation in the French love lyric at the height of the Lyonnais Renaissance as illustrated by one of the country's most prominent writers. Maurice Scève's Délie is the first French sequence of poems devot...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Two Models of Meditation for Délie: Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises and Augustine's Confessions
  • 2. Meditative Praxis and the Tensions of Transvaluation
  • 3. Lyric Dispossession and the Powers of Enigma
  • 4. The Triple Way
  • 5. Via purgativa
  • 6. Via illuminativa
  • 7. Via unitiva
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index