Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 August 2019
- ISBN 9780198831709
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 241x164x20 mm
- Weight 526 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Jennifer H. Oliver explores the extent to which depictions of the ship in sixteenth century France are freighted with political, religious, and poetic symbolism. She examines the ways in which the ship and the body are made analogous in Renaissance shipwreck writing.
MoreLong description:
In the sixteenth century, a period of proliferating transatlantic travel and exploration, and, latterly, religious civil wars in France, the ship is freighted with political and religious, as well as poetic, significance; symbolism that reaches its height when ships--both real and symbolic--are threatened with disaster. The Direful Spectacle argues that, in the French Renaissance, shipwreck functions not only as an emblem or motif within writing, but as a part, or the whole, of a narrative, in which the dynamics of spectatorship and of co-operation are of constant concern. The possibility of ethical distance from shipwreck--imagined through the Lucretian suave mari magno commonplace--is constantly undermined, not least through a sustained focus on the corporeal. This book examines the ways in which the ship and the body are made analogous in Renaissance shipwreck writing; bodies are described and allegorized in nautical terms, and, conversely, ships themselves become animalized and humanized. Secondly, many texts anticipate that the description of shipwreck will have an affect not only on its victims, but on those too of spectators, listeners, and readers. This insistence on the physicality of shipwreck is also reflected in the dynamic of bricolage that informs the production of shipwreck texts in the Renaissance. The dramatic potential of both the disaster and the process of rebuilding is exploited throughout the century, culminating in a shipwreck tragedy. By the late Renaissance, shipwreck is not only the end, but often forms the beginning of a story.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
'Le naufrage de ce mortel monde': Shipwreck and the Nef
'? deux doigtz prés de la mort': From shipwreck to storm scene (and back again)
'Cet universel naufrage du monde': Shipwreck in a time of civil war
'Shipwreckful' afterlives: 'Naufrage' and Histoire
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
