Amphion Orator: How the Royal Odes of François de Malherbe Reimagine the French Nation

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.

© 2021 Narr Francke Attempto Verlag (Ebook): 9783823302490

Release date

Ebook: 15 February 2021