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Building the Text: Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modern France - Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs Cowling, David (Lecturer in French, Lecturer in French, University of Exeter)
Building the Text: Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modern France - Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
Cowling, David (Lecturer in French, Lecturer in French, University of Exeter)
Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France. This book explores the relationship between metaphor and allegory in the corpus of writing that spans the late-15th and early-16th century in France, and concentrates on the output of Jean Lemaire.
254 pages, 11 pp plates
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 12, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198159599 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 223 × 149 × 28 mm · 464 g |
| Language | English |