Theoretical legacy of the pleiade: The system of genres in “L’art poetique” by Jacques Peletier du Mans
https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2022-67-1-129-135
Abstract
The article studies the formation of the genre system in French literature of the Renaissance.
The object of our study is Jacques Peletier du Mans’ theoretical work “L’Art poétique”, which embodies one of the important milestones of this process.
Within the framework of this prescriptive poetics, the author makes an attempt to record the renewal of the poetic genre system by rejecting medieval genre forms and antiquity orientation. At the same time, Peletier is quite free in his choice of samples; one of his tasks can be considered as striving to reflect the real poetic practice of his contemporaries, among them the poets of the Pléiade and Clément Marot. As criteria for distinguishing genres, the author of “The Poetic Art” uses both thematic and formal criteria that have long been known to theoreticians, as well as a stylistic criterion. It is gradually taking shape and thanks to it, elements of the genre hierarchy arise in “The Poetic Art”. This approach best characterizes the concept of the “Pléiade assagie”, capable not only of discarding poetic principles and forms that do not suit it, but also of taking into account the experience of previous generations to glorify French national literature.
About the Author
K. Avdonina
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kseniia Aleksandrovna Avdonina, graduate student
119991
1 Leninskie Gory
Moscow
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Avdonina K. Theoretical legacy of the pleiade: The system of genres in “L’art poetique” by Jacques Peletier du Mans. Philology and Culture. 2022;(1):129-135. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2022-67-1-129-135
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