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"Moving from a definition of the lyric to the innovations introduced by Petrarch's poetic language, this study goes on to propose a new reading of several French poets (Charles d'Orléans, Ronsard, and Du Bellay), and a re-evaluation of Montaigne's understanding of the most striking poetry and its relation to his own prose. Instead of relying on conventional notions of Renaissance subjectivity, it locates recurring features of this poetic language that express a turn to the singular and that herald lyric poetry's modern emphasis on the utterly particular. By combining close textual analysis with more modern ethical concerns this study establishes clear distinctions between what poets do and what rhetoric and poetics say they do. It shows how the tradition of rhetorical commentary is insufficient in accounting for this startling effectiveness of lyric poetry, manifest in Petrarch's Rime Sparse and the collections of the best poets writing after him"--

Poetry --- French literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- French poetry --- Lyric poetry --- Particularity (Aesthetics) --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Montaigne, Michel de, --- Petrarca, Francesco, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Language. --- Particularity (Aesthetics). --- Aesthetics --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Pétrarque --- Petrarch --- Petracco, Francesco --- Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374) --- Montagne, Michel de, --- Montenʹ, Mishelʹ, --- Montanʹe, Mikhaĭlo, --- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, --- Montaigne, --- Montēnyu, --- Montaini, Misel d̲e, --- דה־מונטן, מישל, --- די־מונטין, מיכאל, --- מונטין, מישל דה, --- Montenj, Mišel de, --- Petrarca, Franciscus, --- Petrarch, --- Petrarch, Francesco, --- Petrarcha, Franciscus, --- Petrark, --- Petrarka, Franchesko, --- Peṭrarḳa, Frants'esḳo, --- Pétrarque, --- Петрарка, Франческо, --- פטררקא, פרנצ׳סקו --- de Montaigne, Michel Eyquem --- Eyquem, Michel --- Monten', Mišel' --- Petrarca, Francesco

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Fiction --- Comparative literature --- French literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Amitié dans la littérature --- Boeken en lectuur--Moraal en religieuze aspecten --- Books and reading--Moral and religious aspects --- Ethics and literature --- Ethiek en literatuur --- Ethique et littérature --- Friendship in literature --- Literature and ethics --- Literature and morals --- Literature--Moral and religious aspects --- Literatuur en ethiek --- Literatuur en moraal --- Literatuur--Moraal en religieuze aspecten --- Littérature et morale --- Littérature et éthique --- Littérature--Morale et aspects religieux --- Livres et lecture--Morale et aspects religieux --- Moraal en literatuur --- Morale et littérature --- Morals and literature --- Vriendschap in de literatuur --- Ethics in literature --- Literature --- Philosophy --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Theory --- Literature - Philosophy

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Death in literature. --- Invention (Rhetoric) --- Self in literature. --- History --- Ronsard, Pierre de, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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The closely related problems of creativity and freedom have long been seen as emblematic of the Renaissance. Ullrich Langer, however, argues that French and Italian Renaissance literature can be profitably reconceived in terms of the way these problems are treated in late medieval scholasticism in general and nominalist theology in particular. Looking at a subject that is relatively unexplored by literary critics, Langer introduces the reader to some basic features of nominalist theology and uses these to focus on what we find to be "modern" in French and Italian literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Langer demonstrates that this literature, often in its most interesting moments, represents freedom from constraint in the figures of the poet and the reader and in the fictional world itself. In Langer's view, nominalist theology provides a set of concepts that helps us understand the intellectual context of that freedom: God, the secular sovereign, and the poet are similarly absolved of external necessity in their relationships to their worlds.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Renaissance. --- Theology in literature. --- Nominalism in literature. --- Free will and determinism in literature. --- French literature --- Italian literature --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History and criticism. --- History --- Italy --- France --- Intellectual life

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Rhetoric --- History. --- d'Aubigné, Agrippa,