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  1. Fra Francesc Moner’s Bilingual Poetics of Love and Reason
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Fra Francesc Moner (1462/3-1491/2) is a Catalan author, who flourished in Barcelona during the second decade subsequent to the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1469. Moner’s extant production amounts to seventy-four pieces,... more

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    Fra Francesc Moner (1462/3-1491/2) is a Catalan author, who flourished in Barcelona during the second decade subsequent to the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1469. Moner’s extant production amounts to seventy-four pieces, a collection of poems and prose works of various genres, written in Catalan and in Castilian. A comprehensive study that profiles the creativity of a whole career is a rare occurrence for a Hispanic author like Moner, whose lifetime straddles the boundaries between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This book highlights the two main aspects of Fra Francesc’s contribution: first, the resourceful bilingualism stemming from Moner’s mastery of not only his native Catalan but also Castilian, the language that in the late 1400s kept gaining the ascendancy and prestige of officialdom throughout the Spanish realm; second, the fashioning of an iconic text of subjectivity in the wake of the landmark innovations brought about by Ausiàs March, the Valencian luminary of the first half of the fifteenth century. Moner develops a love-centered poetics that integrates the distinctive strains of multiple traditions. By probing into Moner’s poetics of love and reason, the reader catches a glimpse of an author engaged in intense soul-searching. Moner, in turn, shares with his readers some extraordinary insights into the compelling moments of the human condition – precisely the condition of the human being torn between the allure of the flesh and the aspiration toward the Divine.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781453901090
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    RVK Categories: IL 7799
    DDC Categories: 860
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 173
    Subjects: Liebe <Motiv>; Vernunft <Motiv>; Zweisprachigkeit
    Other subjects: Moner, Francisco (1463-1492)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Fra Francesc Moner’s Bilingual Poetics of Love and Reason
    The «Wisdom Text» by a Catalan Writer of the Early Renaissance