The Poetics of Inconstancy: Etienne Durand and the End of Renaissance Verse (NORTH CAROLINA STUDIES IN THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES) - Softcover

Rogers, Hoyt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807892602 ISBN 13: 9780807892602

Verlag: UNC Department of Romance Studies, 1998

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The transformation of Late Petrarchism from earlier stages reflects a profound shift in cultural values - a 'crisis of the Renaissance' that generated new perspectives in poetic theory and practice. Broadly, this book identifies a distinctive 'poetics of inconstancy' that came to the fore at the end of the sixteenth century and pervaded the love verse of the age. At the same time, as a study based on the inductive method, the book takes as its point of departure a single poet: Etienne Durand. Because of his frequently anthologized 'Stances à l'Inconstance,' Durand is often singled out as 'the poet of inconstancy.' This study, however, identifies the theme of universal change as a hallmark of Durand's contemporaries as well - a signal of a stylistic revolution that heralded the end of Renaissance verse.

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Hoyt Rogers is a writer, scholar, and internationalist, educated at Columbia, the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Oxford. He translates from the French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Born in North America, he has spent most of his life in Western Europe and Latin America; he has also traveled extensively in Asia, the Arctic, Africa, and the Antarctic. He is the author of a study of Renaissance verse, The Poetics of Inconstancy. His poems, stories, essays, and translations have appeared in scores of periodicals, including the New England Review, the Partisan Review,Harper's, The Southern Review, the Kenyon Review, AGNI, and The Fortnightly Review, where he is a Contributing Editor. His English versionsof Jorge Luis Borges, Yves Bonnefoy, André du Bouchet, and many other poets have been widely distributed. With Friedhelm Kemp, he published the first translations of George Oppen into German. With Paul Auster, Richard Howard, Lincoln Kirstein, Alastair Reid, W. S. Merwin, and Mark Strand, among others, he has collaborated on books for Farrar Straus, Perseus-Basic, Knopf, Seagull, Random House, Atheneum, Yale-Margellos, Viking-Penguin, and a further list of presses large and small. For more information, please visit hoytrogers.com

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• Verlag: UNC Department of Romance Studies
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807892602
• ISBN 13: 9780807892602
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242
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