Death and Tenses: Posthumous Presence in Early Modern France
Awards:   Winner of Winner of the Society for French Studies R. Gapper Book.
Author:   Neil Kenny (All Souls College, University of Oxford, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Professor of French)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 September 2020
Format:   Paperback
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  • Winner of Winner of the Society for French Studies R. Gapper Book.

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Author:   Neil Kenny (All Souls College, University of Oxford, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Professor of French)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 17.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780198831150


ISBN 10:   0198831153
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Inescapable Tense Part I. Tense, Death, Survival 1: Modern Tenses for the Dead: Towards a Sketch 2: The Historiographical Regime of Disentanglement 3: Surviving Death in the Early Modern Period 4: Early Modern Tenses for the Dead Part II. Dying, Burying, Mourning: Tense and Ritual 5: Tense and Ritual 6: Christ, the Saints, Meditation 7: The Eucharist 8: From Funeral Sermon to Coronation 9: Epitaphs 10: Consolation Literature Part III. Discursive Remains 11: Actions 12: Spoken Words 13: Written Words Part IV. Authors 14: Rabelais 15: Montaigne Conclusion: Breaking Through? Bibliography Index

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Neil Kenny FBA is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Previously he taught French at the University of Cambridge and at Queen Mary University of London, having been a Frances A. Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute. He has written extensively on early modern literature, thought, and culture, especially in France. His previous books include The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (OUP, 2004) and An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century French Literature and Thought: Other Times, Other Places (London: Duckworth, now Bloomsbury, 2008).

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