Youth Against Age: Generational Strife in Renaissance Poetry. with Special Reference to Edmund Spenser's the Shepheardes Calender

by Steven Marx

Genre de vie is the French term for what English speakers call the stages of life. This book concerns itself with the fundamental connection between genres de vie and literary genres, between chronological categories of human existence and traditional kinds of poetic discourse. Its central focus falls upon the debate of youth and age, a verse convention which sets aboy and an old man in a rustic landscape and pits them in generational combat. It...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820401838
• ISBN13: 9780820401836
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 252 Pages