Year: 1969
Type: book-review
Abstract: Professor Bovven has written this admittedly tentative but most welcome study to help a fairly broad audience of "friends, students and scholars of French Renaissance literature" appreciate, rather than disparage, the disorderliness they will find in the works of Rabelais, Montaigne and their contemporaries.She opposes what she sees as the continuing tendency, especially of French critics, to consider the literature of the period as an imperfect prepara- tion for the symmetry, order and balance of classicism.She is, of course, not alone in this ,
Source: Renaissance and Reformation
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2739237487