Praise Of Folly Research Articles

Dutch Proverbs and Ancient Sources in Erasmus'sPraise of Folly

Clarence Miller, the learned editor and commentator of Erasmus'sPraise of Folly, made a challenging remark in a recent issue ofRenaissance Quarterly. In discussing a collection of essays on theMoriaand theColloquies,he observes in conclusion that it is “very difficult to say much that is both new and true” about Erasmus's satire. With a view to the flood of secondary literature on the subject, his observation seems quite to the point.I shall illustrate a number of basic textual ingredients in theMoriawhose origin has escaped the attention of Erasmus specialists, namely, Dutch proverbs and expressions. More than once it is Folly herself that suggests she is going to quote from the vernacular.

Reviews

Reviews Get access Martz L. LThomas More: The Search for the Inner Man Pp. xi + 112 . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1990 . £12.95. Erasmus D (ed. R. M. Adams), The Praise of Folly and Other Writings Pp. viii + 341 (Norton Critical Editions). New York and London : W. W. Norton 1990 . Paperbound £5.95. More T (ed. G. M. Logan and R. M. Adams), Utopia, Pp. xxxv +137 (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought). Cambridge, New York, Port Chester, Melbourne, Sydney : Cambridge University Press , 1989 . Paper-bound £4.95 RIVKAH ZIM RIVKAH ZIM King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 40, Issue 4, December 1993, Pages 534–535, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/40-4-534 Published: 01 December 1993

Erasmus: a critical biography

1. Childhood and Youth. 2. A Humanist in the Monastery. 3. The Hard Apprenticeship of Freedom. 4. Paris, The Attractions and Burdens of a Tutorship. 5. England, A Second Homeland. 6. Paris and Louvain, From the Adages to the Panegyric. 7. An Introduction to the Devout Life: The Handbook of the Christian Soldier. 8. Italy and the Return to the Sources. 9. A Religious Pamphlet: The Praise of Folly. 10. From the Foundations of the Abundant Style to The Education of the Christian Prince. 11. The New Testament. 12. The Age of Gold. 13. From Louvain to Antwerp via Basel and Cologne. 14. Polemics at Louvain and Relaxation at Anderlecht. 15. Erasmus and Luther: The Clash of Two Reforms. 16. Settled in Basel. 17. Basel: The Daily Round of Work. 18. The Colloquies : Chronicle of an Era. 19. From The Institution of Marriage to the Ciceronian. 20. Christ Served First. 21. Freiburg. A Voluntary Exile. 22. Freiburg. The Final Harvest. 23. Return to Basel. Farewells. 24. The Personality of Erasmus. 25. Appraisal of a Life's Work: Literature, Peace, Philosophy of Christ. 26. The Erasmian Message: From the Critique of Christianity to Critical Christianity.

The Smile of Truth: The French Satirical Eulogy and Its Antecedents

To teach the truth smilingly was, during the Renaissance, a frequently expressed goal among prose writers and poets such as Erasmus, Berni, Ronsard, Rabelais, and du Bellay, who adopted an ironic posture within their mock encomia in order to refer the reader beyond the realm of the literary structure. In this book Annette Tomarken reconstructs the history of the classical satirical eulogy as it was revived, expanded, and finally adapted to new purposes in Renaissance literature. Tracing the development of this type of paradox from its classic roots through the Neo-Latin, Italian, and French mock encomia, Tomarken examines its various forms in the Renaissance, including the Pliade hymne-blason, the mock epitaph, and the stage harangue. Her book provides a new context for such works as In Praise of Folly and for such literary passages as Rabelais's praise of debts and Falstaff's denunciation of honor. Dividing the eulogies into three groups--praises of vices, disease, and animals and insects--Tomarken brings humor as well as close textual analysis to her study. She finds that the practitioners of the form were aware of its history and that such self-awareness became an integral part of the works themselves. An increased sensitivity to the literary structure and history of the paradoxical encomium, Tomarken stresses, first requires and then enriches our understanding of the genre's relationship to the extra-literary domain.

Satisficing rationality: In praise of folly

From a psychological point of view, human wants and desires form a multitiered structure. If values are related in any way to human affectivity or desire - and this is something most maximizing theorists would certainly not dispute - then we are forced to recognize that human values also form a multi-tiered structure. Failure to appreciate this connection leads maximization theorists seriously astray, both in their interpretation of human behavior and in their postulates of rationality. Optimizing involves satisficing, not strictly maximization; satisficing is truly rational.

Erasmus' Praise of Folly: Rivalry and Madness

Erasmus' Praise of Folly: Rivalry and Madness

Swift's Scatological Poetry A Praise of Folly

Research Article| June 01 1987 Swift's Scatological Poetry A Praise of Folly Everett Zimmerman Everett Zimmerman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (2): 124–144. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-48-2-124 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Everett Zimmerman; Swift's Scatological Poetry A Praise of Folly. Modern Language Quarterly 1 June 1987; 48 (2): 124–144. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-48-2-124 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsModern Language Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press1987 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Articles You do not currently have access to this content.

A Game at Chess Thomas Middleton's “Praise of Folly”

<i>A Game at Chess</i> Thomas Middleton's “Praise of Folly”

Sidney's Old Arcadia: In Praise of Folly

Sidney's Old Arcadia: In Praise of Folly

French Medieval Drama and The Praise of Folly

French Medieval Drama and The Praise of Folly

Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly. ByM. A. Screech. (Pp. 270; £24.00.) Duckworth: London. 1982.

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Ironic Textuality in The Praise of Folly and Gargantua and Pantagruel

Ironic Textuality in The Praise of Folly and Gargantua and Pantagruel

:Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly

:<i>Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly</i>

Desiderius Erasmus. The Praise of Folly. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Clarence H. Miller. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. 183 pp. $15.50; paper, $3.95. - John C. Olin. Six Essays on Erasmus and a Translation of Erasmus' Letter to Carondolet, 1523. New York: Fordham University Press, 1979. xiv + 125 pp. $17.50; paper, $7.

Desiderius Erasmus. The Praise of Folly. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Clarence H. Miller. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. 183 pp. 3.95. - John C. Olin. Six Essays on Erasmus and a Translation of Erasmus' Letter to Carondolet, 1523. New York: Fordham University Press, 1979. xiv + 125 pp. 7. - Volume 35 Issue 1

M. A. Screech, Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly. London (Duckworth) 1980. XXIV, 267 p. - £ 24.-

M. A. Screech, Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly. London (Duckworth) 1980. XXIV, 267 p. - £ 24.-

The Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly

Erasmus' Praise of Follyand the Spirit of Carnival

In his far-ranging study,Rabelais and His World,Mikhail Bakhtin describes Erasmus’Praise of Follyas the most complete expression in the Renaissance of Medieval Latin humour and as ‘one of the greatest creations of carnival laughter in world literature.’ For all Erasmus's wit and comic irony, thePraise of Follymight seem an unlikely embodiment of the comic spirit central to Carnival and other popular festivals such as New Year's, May Day, Midsummer, and the Twelve Days of Christmas. In the light of Bakhtin's remarks, however, I will here explore the importance of popular traditions of Carnival and other holiday celebrations for understanding the spirit and structure of Erasmus’ work.

The Problem of Unity in The Praise of Folly

The Problem of Unity in <i>The Praise of Folly</i>

Bartholomew Fair: Ben Jonson in Praise of Folly

<i>Bartholomew Fair</i>: Ben Jonson in Praise of Folly

"Lazarillo de Tormes", Petrarch's "De remediis adversae fortunae", and Erasmus's "Praise of Folly"

In his most recent, and very important, study of Lazarillo de Tormes, Professor Lazaro Carreter has pointed out that certain interesting analogues to persons or situations in the Lazarillo are to be found in Erasmus's Praise of Folly. There is the similarity between the escudero and the type of person alluded to by Folly when she says she cannot pass over without mention ‘those who are no better than the humblest worker but take extraordinary pride in an empty title of nobility’ [‘… tamen inani nobilitatis titulo mirum quam sibi blandiuntur’]. Then there is the similarity between the Lazaro we see married to the archpriest's mistress and the husband who, according to Folly, ‘swears that the wife he shares with her many lovers outdoes faithful Penelope, and congratulates himself on what is a happy delusion’.