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- Title
Lyric Economies: Manufacturing Values in French Petrarchan Collections (1549-60).
- Authors
ALDUY, CÉCILE
- Abstract
Between 1549 and 1560, French Petrarchan sonnet sequences proliferated in the wake of Du Bellay's Defense and Illustration of the French Tongue and Ronsard's Amours. Yet this proliferation relied on a remarkable economy of means, in large part due to the constant recycling of metaphors, tropes, and forms. In fact, the genre can be read as a cost-efficient system that addressed the economic anxiety of a generation of poets caught between the aspiration to impose the autonomy of their art and their social dependence on a patron. It also preemptively solved the potential credit crisis that could have resulted from having had to borrow from the Italians in order to establish a new French canon. Looking at Ronsard, Du Bellay, and Ellain, this essay examines French Petrarchan collections as complex lyric economies that manufacture and negotiate aesthetic, literary, monetary, and national values.
- Subjects
PETRARCHISM; FRENCH sonnets; 16TH century French poetry; RONSARD, Pierre de, 1524-1585; MEDIEVAL &; Renaissance (Literary period)
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2010, Vol 63, Issue 3, p721
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1086/656927