Böcker av Dorothy Gabe Coleman

In this 1979 book the author examines the Roman values that influenced sixteenth-century French literature.

A study of Maurice Sceve's sequence of love poems, the Delie - the first French canzoniere. There are two main themes: Sceve's rendering of the intensity and complexity of the human experience of love, and secondly, his exploitation of the European tradition of love poetry.

Coleman sees Rabelais as finding a particular form - Menippean satire - in which he could achieve a balance between seriousness and irony, involvement and detachment, direct address to the reader and distance, and in which he was able to develop his own unique language.