Amphion Orator
Subtitle: how the Royal Odes of François de Malherbe reimagine the French nation
By: Michael Taormina
Series: Biblio 17 -- volume 224; Biblio 17 -- v. 224.
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9783823384649; 9783823394648; 9783823302490
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Nationalism and literature; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Preface -- Introduction; title: Praising the Great Soul --; title: Literary Patronage --; title: The Evolution of Noble Identity --; title: The Search for Royal Eloquence --; title: How the Royal Odes Perform an Accessory Political Function --; title: The Political Functions of Wonder and its Rhetorical Production --; title: The Ciceronian Atticism of the Royal Odes --; title: The Sequence of Royal Odes --; title: The Return of Astraea --; title: The Trials of the King --; title: Prière pour le Roi allant en Limousin (1605; 1607) --; title: Ode sur l'attentat en la personne de sa majesté (1605; 1606) --; title: Triumph and Death --; title: Ode au feu Roi sur l'heureux succès du voyage de Sedan (1606; 1607) --; title: À Monseigneur le duc de Bellegarde (1608; 1609) --; title: Sur la mort de Henri le Grand (1610; 1630) --; title: The Goddess of War and Peace --; title: À la Reine sur les heureux succès de sa régence (1610; 1611) --; title: À la Reine mère du roi pendant sa régence (1613; 1621) --; title: Pour la Reine mère du roi pendant sa régence (unfinished 1613; 1630) --; title: The Prophecy Fulfilled ---- Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Primary Sources-- Secondary Sources-- Index.