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Classiques Garnier

L’Épopée et ses modèles de la Renaissance aux Lumières

  • Publication type: Collective work
  • Editors: Greiner (Frank), Ternaux (Jean-Claude)
  • Abstract: Why did the epic, the most prestigious genre of all, not become the great modern genre in France? The studies collected here explore the influence of the heritage of classical and Italian authors. They then examine the metamorphoses of the epic genre, incorporated into tragedy and the novel.
  • Number of pages: 363
  • Parution: 09-27-2023
  • Reprint of the edition of: 2002
  • Collection: Encounters, n° 204
  • Series: Symposiums, seminars, and conferences on the European Renaissance, n° 29
  • CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
  • EAN: 9782406089001
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-08900-1
  • ISSN: 2103-5636
  • DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-093-6
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 02-28-2007
  • Language: French
  • Keyword: Tragic stories, heroic poem, eschatology, apocalypse, Torquato Tasso, Ludovico Ariosto, François Rabelais, Voltaire, Honoré d’Urfé, literature of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries