Remy Belleau et l’art de guérir

Jean Braybrook

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2013

Remy Belleau et l’art de guérir

Remy Belleau and the Art of Healing

Jean Braybrook

https://doi.org/10.2478/9788376560205

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About this book

This book fills a gap in the market as it ranges over the whole of Belleau’s work, rather than concentrating solely on La Bergerie or Les Amours et nouveaux eschanges des pierres precieuses. It starts by asking why a group of doctors produced a French edition of Belleau in 1945. It moves on to consider sickness and healing in Belleau’s work, studying the comedy, La Reconnue, and the macaronic poem, the Dictamen metrificum, alongside the better-known texts. Throughout, it emphasizes the importance of the political and religious background of the time. A miraculous stick that Belleau describes in La Bergerie is seen in the first chapter of L’Art de guérir as a symbol of therapeutic powers. The second chapter considers love and the poet’s debt to other writers, such as Sappho or Ficino (Belleau was erudite and eclectic). Les Amours de David et de Bersabee is the focal point of Chapter 3; once again one sees the corrosive powers of love, and the ability of poetry and music to transform suffering into beauty. Mention is made of the various academies, which were important in Belleau’s development. Chapter 4 traces the motif of illness in La Reconnue and links it to religious turmoil. This connection is even clearer in the Dictamen metrificum de bello huguenotico, a strange, savagely humorous text (Chapter 5). Chapter 6 concerns Belleau’s poems on precious stones, surely the pinnacle of his achievement. In those, therapy is an explicitly articulated motif, while religious faith is crucial. The conclusion suggests parallels with writers such as Saint Augustine, Rabelais, Du Bellay and Montaigne.

Renaissance French poetry; the Pléiade; poetry and therapy

Author / Editor information

The author lectures at Birkbeck College, University of London, has published widely on the Pléiade, and has edited works by Belleau.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Note Publicly Available Download PDF	11
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	13
Chapitre 1 Le «baston de berger» et la colonne triomphale Publicly Available Download PDF	27
Chapitre 2 «Le Mal d’Amours» Publicly Available Download PDF	37
Chapitre 3 «Les Amours de David et de Bersabee» Publicly Available Download PDF	61
Chapitre 4 L’Humour: La Reconnue Publicly Available Download PDF	77
Chapitre 5 La Poésie macaronique: le Dictamen metrificum Publicly Available Download PDF	97
Chapitre 6 Les Pierres précieuses Publicly Available Download PDF	113
Conclusion Publicly Available Download PDF	159
Bibliographie Publicly Available Download PDF	165
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	205

(Deutsch)

Language: French
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Academics and students interested in Pléiade poetry; readers interested in poetry as therapy; those interested in Belleau.
Pages
- Main content: 213
Keywords: Poetry; Pléiade; healing; love; faith; humour; gems; Academies; music; ecphrasis.

eBook

Published: October 14, 2013
ISBN: 9788376560205

Hardcover

Published: June 6, 2016
ISBN: 9788376560199