Litanic Verse III: Francia

by Magdalena Kowalska (Editor)

Overview

The third volume describes the development of litanic verse from the troubadour poetry and Old French religious verse up to World War II. The analyses concern the stylistic devices such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora, and epiphora used by Rutebeuf, Joachim du Bellay, Jean de La Ceppède, Francis Jammes, Paul Claudel, among others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631756225
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	09/27/2018
Series:	Literary and Cultural Theory
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Magdalena Kowalska holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Having joined the University of Warsaw she carried out the research on French litanic verse. Her publications (in Polish, French and English) concern the romantic travel writing and French religious poetry.

Table of Contents

Development of litanic verse – Troubadour poetry – Old French religious verse –The study on the versification strategies – The study on stylistic devices – enumeration – parallelism – anaphora – epiphora – Rutebeuf – Joachim du Bellay – Jean de La Ceppède – Francis Jammes – Paul Claudel