The Love Aesthetics of Maurice Scève: Poetry and Struggle

by Jerry C. Nash

Book Overview

This book reassesses the love poetry of Maurice Sc ve from a phenomenological viewpoint. It calls into question the traditional critical view of Sc ve as a poet consumed by the anguish and darkness of unrequited love, and frustrated by poetic and erotic quests that lead him nowhere. Professor Nash argues instead that the conflicting forces in Sc ve's poetic expression of love (light and dark, night and day, heaven and hell) lead ultimately to a sense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521025621
• ISBN13: 9780521025621
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"