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Rabelaisian Dialectic and the Platonic-Hermetic Tradition

By: George Mallary Masters,Timothy Carl McMasters

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Rabelaisian Dialectic and the Platonic-Hermetic Tradition

By: George Mallary Masters,Timothy Carl McMasters

In this study, Professor Masters looks beyond the few critical attempts that heretofore have analyzed only isolated aspects of Platonism and Hermetism in Rabelaisian literature. He examines the closely related themes of Platonism, the Dionysian mysteries, and the Hermetic sciences in Rabelais's work and concludes that Rabelais shared with the Platonic-Hermetic tradition both its dialectic and perception of man's position in the universe. In the perspective of Platonic dialectic, Professor Masters analyzes Rabelaisian allegory, symbolism, and imagery as a play on appearance and reality. Through the allegorical myths of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais rejects the seemingly dichotomous extremes of materialism and ascetic spiritualism, while his philosophy of Pantagrue?lisme shows a positive acceptance of both the physical world and contemplative thought. Through the symbolism of wine, Rabelais manifests the Platonic ideal of Love-Harmony-Order on the literal level of conviviality, in the philosophical dialogue of the symposium, and in the intuitive dialectic of Socratic contemplation. In Rabelais's view, man can achieve self-knowledge only through reasonable control and by actively establishing a balance with society, nature, and God. The magus may diabolically use the "sciences" of astrology, magic, alchemy, and the Cabala in an attempt to subject the world to his own will, or he may achieve unity with himself and his total environment by restoring in himself the harmonious order he finds in the cosmos. In an appendix, Professor Masters examines the continuity of the several themes of the Platonic-Hermetic tradition as they occur in the five books of the Rabelaisian corpus. He concludes, as two corollaries of the main thesis, that their constant recurrence demonstrates the thematic unity of the five books and the authenticity of Book Five.

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0873950399

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Homo Viator

Itineraries of Exile, Displacement and Writing in Renaissance Europe

By: George Hugo Tucker

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Itineraries of Exile, Displacement and Writing in Renaissance Europe

By: George Hugo Tucker

Etude de l'écriture de l'exil à la Renaissance, avec une typologie basée sur les écrits de Pétrarque, de Marot et Joannes Sambucus ; un examen de la tradition allégorique du voyage de la vie ; et enfin, une lecture des écrits d'exil de Petrus Alcyonius, de deux marranes portugais, D. Pires et Amatus Lusitanus, et de Joachim Du Bellay.

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422

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Librairie Droz

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2600008578

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9782600008570

Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature

Essays for Mary B. McKinley

By: Jeff Persels,Kendall Tarte,George Hoffmann

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Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature

Essays for Mary B. McKinley

By: Jeff Persels,Kendall Tarte,George Hoffmann

Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature brings together a full score of essays by established and rising American-based scholars of the early modern. Arranged according to five themes or genres: Tales and their Tellers, Poets and Poetry, Religious Controversy, Montaigne, and Knowledge Networks, they offer both fresh perspectives on canonical authors such as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as original interpretations of less familiar works of sixteenth-century moment: confessional polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, epigraphy, bibliophilism and even ichthyology. Inspired by and gathered together here to honor the eclectic career of Mary B. McKinley, this anthology integrates many of the most pertinent topics and contemporary approaches of early modern French scholarly inquiry. Contributors are: Pascale Barthe, Leah L. Chang, Edwin M. Duval, Gary Ferguson, George Hoffmann, Robert J. Hudson, Karen Simroth James, Scott D. Juall, Virginia Krause, Kathleen Long, Stephen Murphy, Corinne Noirot, Jeff Persels, Bernd Renner, Nicolas Russell, Nicholas Shangler, Cynthia Skenazi, Kendall Tarte, Cara Welch, and Cathy Yandell.

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9004351515

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9789004351516

Rabelaisian Dialectic and the Platonic-Hermetic Tradition

By: George Mallary Masters,Timothy Carl McMasters

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Rabelaisian Dialectic and the Platonic-Hermetic Tradition

Rabelaisian Dialectic and the Platonic-Hermetic Tradition

Homo Viator

Homo Viator

Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature

Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature

Rabelaisian Dialectic and the Platonic-Hermetic Tradition

Rabelaisian Dialectic and the Platonic-Hermetic Tradition

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