Villon's Last Will by Tony Hunt
Traditionally scholars have scoured Villon's Testament for details about life in fifteenth century Paris. Few, though, have shown us why it is interesting as literature. Hunt puts aside historic references to concentrate exclusively on the textual strategies of the work, in particular its rhetorical techniques involving dialogue and irony. He views The Testament as ironic from start to finish, revealing how the poet's ironic technique results in the dissolution of meaning, authority, and even authorial identity.
Tony Hunt's study is a very big book pakced into a riotously small spaceThe erudition, it and ribald fun of Villon's text is dexterously unpacked through close reading and scholarly commment on the generic and social contexts. Villon's irony and Sterne-like self-referentiality are brought to the fore for the first time to make this an important new contribution to the study of Villon, with a delightfully light, but no less incisive, critical touch. * Forum for Modern Language Studies 35:4 99 *
there are ... many excellent things here to be unearthed ... Hunt provides a tool-kit for examining at close range the dazzling feats of a master technician. * Times Literary Supplement *
This is like a good study of Rembrandt's brushwork; and though paint is all we have to look at, there is more to Rembrandt than brushwork. * Times Literary Supplement *
there are ... many excellent things here to be unearthed ... Hunt provides a tool-kit for examining at close range the dazzling feats of a master technician. * Times Literary Supplement *
This is like a good study of Rembrandt's brushwork; and though paint is all we have to look at, there is more to Rembrandt than brushwork. * Times Literary Supplement *
Barber, Richard: - Richard Barber has published widely on medieval history. The Knight and Chivalry won the 1971 Somerset Maugham Award. His other major interest is historical biography with books on Henry Plantagenet and the Black Prince.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198159148 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198159145 |
| Title | Villon's Last Will |
| Author | Tony Hunt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1996-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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