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Equipment for Living with Hyperobjects : Proverbs in Ronsard’s Franciade

In poetic responses to the French civil wars, the wounded political body
 of France is aligned with
 This chapter calls attention to the proverbs that punctuate Ronsard’s
 unfinished epic poem La Franciade. It proposes that, as literary forms, the
 proverbs share the massively distributed, viscous and non-local qualities
 of Timothy Morton’s hyperobjects. In Ronsard’s 1572 epic the significance
 of the aftermath of the Trojan war turns out to have extended far beyond
 Virgil’s Aeneid and the foundation of Rome, to the foundation of Paris and
 a yet-to-be-realized early modern French empire. La Franciade’s proverbs
 challenge their readers to perceive and respond to these vastly expanded
 relations, even as they progress through apparently local narrative time.,
 On this basis, they might also equip their readers to engage with the
 dissonant scales of ongoing global ecological crisis.