Tyard's Graphic Metamorphoses
"Figuring the Semiosic Drift in the "Douze Fables de fleuves ou fontaines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10412751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberto E Campo (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 776-800 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1261924 |
| OpenAlex | W1979138076 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Ponttis de Tyard, a lesser-known member of the Pleiade poets of mid-sixteenth-century France, was deeply influenced by the concerns of his comrades and contemporaries about the elemental remoteness of all “reality “ and the resulting “semiosic drift “ undermining any attempt to denote it. He expresses this preoccupation during the mid 1550s, in the Douze Fables de fleuves ou fontaines, his long underrated collection of twelve mythological fables, each accompanied by directions for a fable-based painting and an explanatory sonnet. Like the author's more highly regarded Discours du temps from the same years, the Douze Fables registers traces of not only the “strong” hermeneutic paradigm of the hermetic Neoplatonic tradition, but also the anxiety-ridden mannerist aesthetic of the period
Art · Fable · Literature · Mythology · Poetry · Sonnet · Historical and Literary Studies · Literary Analysis and Cultural Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |