The Gallo-Roman Muse: Aspects of Roman Literary Tradition in Sixteenth-Century France

by Dorothy Gabe Coleman

It is well known in a general way that sixteenth-century French literature looked for its models towards Greece and Rome, but the topic is usually left there. This 1979 book begins with a reassessment of the original meaning and use of the work of Roman rhetoricians. It also identifies certain specific values or canons implicit in the actual texture of Latin poetry, and shows how these transformed French rhetorical theory and inaugurated the line...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521158486
• ISBN13: 9780521158480
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"