Professor Kathryn Banks' Outputs (2)

Opposites and Identities: Maurice Scève's Délie and Charles de Bovelles's Ars Oppositorum (2008)
Journal Article
Banks, K. (2008). Opposites and Identities: Maurice Scève's Délie and Charles de Bovelles's Ars Oppositorum. French Studies, 62(4), 389-403. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knn070

In early sixteenth-century France, uses and conceptions of opposition were varied and shifting. This article analyses some complex and apparently paradoxical notions of opposites and identities found in two very different texts, Charles de Bovelles's... Read More about Opposites and Identities: Maurice Scève's Délie and Charles de Bovelles's Ars Oppositorum.

Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-Philosophical Poetry (2008)
Book
Banks, K. (2008). Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-Philosophical Poetry. Legenda

Renaissance images could be real as well as linguistic. Human beings were often believed to be an image of the cosmos, and the sun an image of God. With Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance, Kathryn Banks explores the implications of this for poetic l... Read More about Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-Philosophical Poetry.