{"product_id":"the-art-of-meditation-and-michael-giordano-9780802099464","title":"The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyric: The Poetics of Introspection in Maurice Scève's Délie, Objet de Plus Haulte Vertu (1544)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyric\u003c\/em\u003e examines the poetics of meditation in the French love lyric at the height of the Lyonnais Renaissance as illustrated by one of the country's most prominent writers. Maurice Scève's \u003cem\u003eDélie\u003c\/em\u003e is the first French sequence of poems devoted to a single woman in the manner of Petrarch's \u003cem\u003eRime\u003c\/em\u003e. It is also the first Renaissance work to use emblems in a sustained work on love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt their core, most amatory lyrics involve a triple relation among lover, beloved, and the meaning of love. Whether the poet-lover is a man or woman, poetic discourse generally takes the form of an interior monologue frequently intermingled with direct and indirect address to the beloved. Though the dominant quality of this lyric is personal introspection, Michael Giordano finds \u003cem\u003eDélie\u003c\/em\u003e to be consistent with traditions of Christian meditation. He argues that the amatory lyric served as a vehicle for contests of value and paradigm change not only because it was conditioned both by sacred and profane sources, but also because it occurred at a time of religious upheaval and scientific revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Giordano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802099467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802099464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.70d","brand":"Michael Giordano","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065136034047,"sku":"9780802099464","price":169.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61180158-0722-4435-a974-e5240cefb318.jpg?v=1768673232","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-art-of-meditation-and-michael-giordano-9780802099464","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}