Modern Languages and Literatures, Department of
Document Type
Article
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/