Amphion Orator

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This new approach to Malherbe's odes interweaves political, cultural, rhetorical, and literary history to show how they constitute a unified sequence whose ambition is to forge a new national community in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion, dislodging Malherbe from his moribund critical reception as a grammarian and technician and recovering the brilliance of a poetic genius whose political mythmaking stems from an impassioned patriotism.
This new approach to Malherbe's odes interweaves political, cultural, rhetorical, and literary history to show how they constitute a unified sequence whose ambition is to forge a new national community in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion, dislodging Malherbe from his moribund critical reception as a grammarian and technician and recovering the brilliance of a poetic genius whose political mythmaking stems from an impassioned patriotism.
- This book breaks new ground in Malherbe studies, showing how Francois de Malherbe's royal odes constitute a unified sequence that revises the myths and images of the French nation in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion. - It reclaims the patriotic voice of a poet reduced to a technician by generations of literary critics. - It provides a clear and comprehensive interpretation of all Malherbe's major odes. - It places the royal odes in their relevant political, cultural, rhetorical, and literary contexts, but it also performs a close reading of each and every one of them. - It contains generous citations from primary sources, and these are all translated into English.

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Michael Taormina

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François de Malherbe eloquence rhetoric encomium ethos virtue magnanimity great soul literary patronage lyric poetry wars of religion noble identity classical mythology French nation poetic sequence

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