Reviews for Troubadours of Dante: Being Selections from the Works of the Provencal Poets Quoted by Dante

The average rating for Troubadours of Dante: Being Selections from the Works of the Provencal Poets Quoted by Dante based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-03-05 00:00:00 Andrew Montgomery Only three chapters in, but loving the way the author shows the relationship between the evolution of literary forms and formats and the evolution of diplomatic practices in 15th and 16th century Europe. This also ties in perfectly to my present library and information science (LIS) studies as an embassy is pretty much an information center. Strong recommend for all diplomats and for all poets, mild recommend for LIS students and practitioners. Here is the Amazon review: "Historians of early modern Europe have long stressed how new practices of diplomacy that emerged during the period transformed European politics. Fictions of Embassy is the first book to examine the cultural implications of the rise of modern diplomacy. Ranging across two and a half centuries and half a dozen languages, Timothy Hampton opens a new perspective on the intersection of literature and politics at the dawn of modernity. Hampton argues that literary texts-tragedies, epics, essays-use scenes of diplomatic negotiation to explore the relationship between politics and aesthetics, between the world of political rhetoric and the dynamics of literary form. The diplomatic encounter is a scene of cultural exchange and linguistic negotiation. Literary depictions of diplomacy offer occasions for reflection on the definition of genre, on the power of representation, on the limits of rhetoric, on the nature of fiction making itself. Conversely, discussions of diplomacy by jurists, political philosophers, and ambassadors deploy the tools of literary tradition to articulate new theories of political action. Hampton addresses these topics through a discussion of the major diplomatic writers between 1450 and 1700-Machiavelli, Grotius, Gentili, Guicciardini-and through detailed readings of literary works that address the same topics-works by Shakespeare, More, Rabelais, Montaigne, Tasso, Corneille, Racine, and Camoens. He demonstrates that the issues raised by diplomatic theorists helped shape the emergence of new literary forms, and that literature provides a lens through which we can learn to read the languages of diplomacy."

Review # 2 was written on 2017-12-21 00:00:00 Patricia Curtis هذه السلسلة رائعة لعرض مقدمة تعريفية رصينة عن أهم المواضيع الأدبية. تشرح بام وريس في هذا الكتاب مفهوم الواقعية وكيف تطور على مدى القرون. ظهرت الواقعية مع روايات القرن التاسع عشر وارتبطت بالاعتقاد أن الفن لايمكن أن يتجاهل الجوانب الأكثر قسوة من الحياة بل من واجبات الفن أن يصور أدبياً هذا الجانب من الواقع ويقاوم بقلمه السلطة والظلم والاضطهاد ومعاناة البشر كما فعل تشارلز ديكنز وجورج اليوت وبلزاك وغيرهم الكثير. تدافع الكاتبة عن اتهام البعض للواقعية انها "مجرد انعكاس أو محاكاة" للواقع أو الحقيقة وكيف أنها بالحقيقة أعمق من ذلك وتذكر علاقة كل من نظريات الأدب الحديثة بهذا المفهوم ابتداءً بالحداثة، مابعد الحداثة، البنيوية حتى مابعد البنيوية والتفكيكية.