Ronsard, Pierre de | Lance K. Donaldson-Evans (essay date 1988)
Lance K. Donaldson-Evans (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: “Demons, Portents, and Visions: Fantastic and Supernatural Elements in Ronsard's Poetry,” in Renaissance Rereadings: Intertext and Context, pp. 225-35. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
[In the following essay, Donaldson-Evans discusses the element of fantasy in Ronsard's poetry.]
For anyone who is familiar with much of the recent criticism devoted to le fantastique, the idea of viewing certain poetic texts of Ronsard as examples of this genre might well seem preposterous, anachronistic—indeed fantastic! First of all, Todorov, in his perceptive Introduction à la littérature fantastique, seems to preclude any such possibility when he states categorically: “We see now why the poetic reading constitutes a danger for the fantastic. If as we read a text we reject all representation, considering each sentence as a pure semantic combination, the fantastic could...
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