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Author Tomarken, Annette H

Title The Smile of Truth : the French Satirical Eulogy and Its Antecedents
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (369 pages)
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments ; ONE. The Satirical Eulogy in Antiquity; TWO. Erasmus and the Moriae Encomium; THREE. Other Writers of Neo-Latin Satirical Eulogies; FOUR. The Satirical Eulogy in Italy; FIVE. The Vice Eulogy in France; SIX. The Disease Eulogy in France; SEVEN. The Animal Eulogy in France; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; I. REFERENCE WORKS; II. CLASSICAL WORKS AND RENAISSANCE TRANSLATIONS; III. NEO-LATIN WORKS AND VERNACULAR TRANSLATIONS; IV. ITALIAN WORKS; V. FRENCH WORKS; VI. ENGLISH WORKS; VII. GERMAN WORKS; VIII. SECONDARY SOURCES; Index
Summary To teach the truth smilingly was, during the Renaissance, a frequently expressed goal among prose writers and poets such as Erasmus, Berni, Ronsard, Rabelais, and du Bellay, who adopted an ironic posture within their mock encomia in order to refer the reader beyond the realm of the literary structure. In this book Annette Tomarken reconstructs the history of the classical satirical eulogy as it was revived, expanded, and finally adapted to new purposes in Renaissance literature. Tracing the development of this type of paradox from its classic roots through the Neo-Latin, Italian, and French
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Subject French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
Satire, French -- History and criticism
Eulogies -- History and criticism
Satire, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism
Renaissance -- France
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Eulogies
French literature
Renaissance
Satire, French
Satire, Latin (Medieval and modern)
France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400860975
1400860970