Download or read book Amphion Orator written by Michael Taormina and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new approach to Malherbe's odes interweaves political, cultural, rhetorical, and literary history to show how they constitute a unified sequence whose ambition is to forge a new national community in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion, dislodging Malherbe from his moribund critical reception as a grammarian and technician and recovering the brilliance of a poetic genius whose political mythmaking stems from an impassioned patriotism.