Excentricite et humanisme: parodie, derision et detournement des codes a la Renaissance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

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Excentricite et humanisme: parodie, derision et detournement des codes a la Renaissance. By PATRICIA EICHEL-LOJKINE. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 63) Geneva: Droz. 2002. 352 pp. SwF 69.90; 47.16 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00642-7.

Excentricite et humanisme begins by suggesting that Renaissance conceptions of the cosmos influence the way in which the Renaissance subject distances himself from dominant discourses: in the hierarchical world of the Greeks, deviance 'ne peut s'exprimer qu'au moyen d'un depassement par le haut [...] ou...

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