The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyric : The Poetics of Introspection in Maurice Scève's délie, Objet de Plus Haulte Vertu (1544).

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Two Models of Meditation for Délie: Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises and Augustine's Confessions -- 2 Meditative Praxis and the Tensions of Transvaluation -- 3 Lyric Dispossession and the Powers of Enigma -- 4 The Triple Way -- 5 Via purgativa -- 6 Via illuminativa -- 7 Via unitiva -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Joannes Mauburnus, Scala Meditatoria -- Appendix 2 Augustine, Confessions, X: 30 -- Appendix 3 Intersections of Illustrations and Dizains: Translation of Mottoes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyricexamines the poetics of meditation in the French love lyric at the height of the Lyonnais Renaissance as illustrated by one of the country's most prominent writers.

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