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Le Cymbalum Mundi avec un dossier et des textes d'accompagnement

  • Publication type: Book
  • Author: Bonaventure des Périers
  • Scientific editor: Delègue (Yves)
  • Abstract: Published anonymously in 1537, these dialogues offer a platform for speakers debating the use of human language. More than merely religious, the real subversive quality of this enigmatic booklet seems to be found in its language, tracing the limits and powers of speech in practice, its illusions, and its truth.
  • Number of pages: 159
  • Parution: 10-26-2022
  • Reprint of the edition of: 1995
  • Collection: Renaissance Texts, n° 4
  • CLIL theme: 3439 -- LITTÉRATURE GÉNÉRALE -- Oeuvres classiques -- Moderne (<1799)
  • EAN: 9782406144441
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-14444-1
  • ISSN: 1262-2842
  • DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-506-1
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 04-04-2007
  • Language: French
  • Keyword: Sophism, satire, allegory, anagram, François Rabelais, archaic language, evangelism, the Cymbalum trial, early humanism, sixteenth-century literature
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