Shipwreck in French renaissance writing the direful spectacle Oliver, Jennifer 1987- creator author. UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online) text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2019 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource. In the sixteenth century, a period of proliferating transatlantic travel and exploration, and, latterly, religious civil wars in France, the ship is freighted with political and religious, as well as poetic, significance; symbolism that reaches its height when ships-both real and symbolic-are threatened with disaster. The Direful Spectacle argues that, in the French Renaissance, shipwreck functions not only as an emblem or motif within writing, but as a part, or the whole, of a narrative, in which the dynamics of spectatorship and of co-operation are of constant concern. The possibility of ethical distance from shipwreck-imagined through the Lucretian suave mari magno commonplace-is constantly undermined, not least through a sustained focus on the corporeal.0This book examines the ways in which the ship and the body are made analogous in Renaissance shipwreck writing; bodies are described and allegorized in nautical terms, and, conversely, ships themselves become animalized and humanized. Secondly, many texts anticipate that the description of shipwreck will have an affect not only on its victims, but on those too of spectators, listeners, and readers. This insistence on the physicality of shipwreck is also reflected in the dynamic of bricolage that informs the production of shipwreck texts in the Renaissance. The dramatic potential of both the disaster and the process of rebuilding is exploited throughout the century, culminating in a shipwreck tragedy. By the late Renaissance, shipwreck is not only the end, but often forms the beginning of a story. 'Le naufrage de ce mortel monde': shipwreck and the Nef -- 'À deux doigtz prés de la mort': from shipwreck to storm scene (and back again) -- 'Cet universel naufrage du monde': shipwreck in a time of civil war -- 'Shipwreckful' afterlives: 'naufrage' and histoire. Jennifer H. Oliver. Includes bibliographical references and index. French literature 16th century History and criticism Shipwrecks in literature Littérature française 16e siècle Histoire et critique Naufrages dans la littérature French literature Shipwrecks in literature 1500-1599 fast PQ239 .O55 2019 840.9/003 Oxford modern languages and literature monographs 9780191869563 0191869562 0198831706 9780198831709 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/34926 STF 191029 20260319181528.7 in00005717897 eng