Modern Languages and Literatures, Department of
Date of this Version
October 2000
Abstract
Sabine Lardon’s monograph commands attention for the precision with which it analyses Sponde’s rhetorical tech¬nique in his Méditations sur les Pseaumes. Basing the need for her book on the critics’ preference for writing about Sponde’s lyric offerings rather than his prose, Lardon pro¬duces a study that yields great insight into Sponde’s ad¬ap¬tation of language and form within the context of bibli¬cal exegesis. Lardon’s work makes a valuable contribution to Spondian studies, and will no doubt help renew interest in baroque devotional literature.
Comments
Published in French Studies 54:4 (Oct 2000), pp. 501-502. Copyright © 2000 Oxford University Press. Used by permission. http://fs.oxfordjournals.org/archive/