{ "item_title" : "Representations of the Body in French Renaissance Poetry", "item_author" : [" Guy R. Mermier", "Karen R. Sorsby "], "item_description" : "Representations of the Body in French Renaissance Poetry examines the poetic debate over the nature and importance of the body in the sixteenth century, a subject about which Renaissance poets had a great deal to say. Focusing on the evolution of dissection and physical examination of the human body, Karen Sorsby presents a detailed and sophisticated understanding of the language of the body as it is used by poets such as Maurice Scève, Du Bellay, Ronsard, Louise Labé, Agrippa d'Aubigné, and Du Bartas. A guiding assumption of this study is that sixteenth-century French poets considered the acquisition of self-knowledge to be necessary to the understanding of man. They relied on anatomy in their poetry to provide a sense of body and soul, which they believed to be necessary to acquire self-knowledge.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/82/044/267/0820442674_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "54.95", "online_price" : "54.95", "our_price" : "54.95", "club_price" : "54.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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