Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert
Author:   Ullrich Langer (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009225250


Pages:   300
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ullrich Langer (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781009225250


ISBN 10:   1009225251
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction; 1. Orpheus in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca: three variations on lyric humanity; 2. Marot's repeated making and unmaking of death; 3. Time, pleasure, and reasoning: Ronsard's Mignonne, Madame de Lafayette's letter, and Baudelaire's passer-by; 4. Flaubert's lyric happiness (L'Éducation sentimentale, Un Cœur simple) 5. Lyrical recovery and return to the ordinary: Rouaud and Echenoz; Conclusion.

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Ullrich Langer is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published extensively on the European early modern period, covering subjects ranging from friendship to pleasure and virtue. He is also the author of the Cambridge Companion to Montaigne (2005) and Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne (2015).

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