{"product_id":"the-love-aesthetics-of-maurice-sceve-poetry-and-struggle-hardback-9780521394123","title":"The Love Aesthetics of Maurice Scève; Poetry and Struggle (Hardback) 9780521394123","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Love Aesthetics of Maurice Scève\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoetry and Struggle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book reassesses the love poetry of Maurice Scève from a phenomenological viewpoint.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJerry C. Nash (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521394123, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 January 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e222 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.3 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.385 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In this thought-provoking and refreshing study, Nash has accomplished on the critical level what he portrays Scève as having attained in the poetic and aesthetic realm.  It is a work which will be valuable, not only to specialists of Scève and Renaissance poetry, but to all who are interested in investigating that mysterious and complicated intellectual, sensual, and aesthetic process which results in the creation of poetry.\"   Renaissance Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book reassesses the love poetry of Maurice Scève from a phenomenological viewpoint. It calls into question the traditional critical view of Scève as a poet consumed by the anguish and darkness of unrequited love, and frustrated by poetic and erotic quests which lead him nowhere. Professor Nash argues instead that the conflicting forces in Scève's poetic expression of love (light and dark, night and day, heaven and hell) lead ultimately to a sense of equilibrium and a transcendent paradisal state, and that the poet's struggle is actually directed towards this coming to terms with the meaning of ineffable love. Contemplation and portrayal of the ineffable are shown to constitute the central and unifying concern of this compelling body of Renaissance love poetry.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. The problem of the dark side of a love poet: an introduction and reassessment\u003cbr\u003e 2. In search of love's epistemology: affirming the role of the creative imagination\u003cbr\u003e 3. Embodying the sacred and ineffable: poetic forms of transcendence and paradise\u003cbr\u003e 4. Becoming what one sees: the unity and identity of poetic self\u003cbr\u003e 5. Struggle, light, and love's 'sainct lieu'\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'De mes trauaulx me bienheurantz ma peine': love poetry as therapy\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Scève, Mallarmé, and the art of transcendence\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20poetry%20\u0026amp;%20poets%20%5BDSC%5D%22\"\u003eDSC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007224172824,"sku":"9780521394123","price":77.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521394123i_f95e222a-6744-4257-a02c-cb2b0e1a83ed.jpg?v=1691380922","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-love-aesthetics-of-maurice-sceve-poetry-and-struggle-hardback-9780521394123","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}