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Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing

Author : Floyd Gray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139426834
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing written by Floyd Gray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical - Gray reveals the extent to which these marginalized texts reflect literary concerns rather than social reality. He then moves from a close analysis of the rhetorical factor in the Querelle des femmes to consider ways in which writing, as a textual phenomenon, inscribes its own, sometimes ambiguous, meaning. Gray offers richly detailed readings of writing by Rabelais, Jean Flore, Montaigne, Louise Labé, Pernette du Guillet and Marie de Gournay among others, challenging the inherent anachronism of those forms of criticism that fail to take account of the rhetorical and cultural conditions of the period.

Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing

Author : Floyd Gray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521773270
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (732 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing by : Floyd Gray

Download or read book Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing written by Floyd Gray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected by rhetorical conventions and the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues--misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical--Gray reveals the extent to which these marginalized texts reflect literary concerns rather than social reality. His new readings of Rabelais, Montaigne, Louise Labé and others, challenge the inherent anachronism of criticism that fails to take account of the cultural context of the period.

The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France

Author : Lyndan Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France written by Lyndan Warner and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature

Author : David P. LaGuardia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317113373
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature by : David P. LaGuardia

Download or read book Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature written by David P. LaGuardia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature is an in-depth analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe: narrative literature devoted to the subject of adultery and cuckoldry. The text begins with a set of general questions that serve as a conceptual framework for the literary analyses that follow: why were early modern readers so fascinated by the figure of the cuckold? What was his relation to the real world of sexual behavior and gender relations? What effect did he have on the construction of actual masculinities? To respond to these questions, David LaGuardia develops a theoretical approach that is based both on modern critical theory and on close readings of records and documents from the period. Reading early modern legal texts, penance manuals, criminal registers, and exempla collections in relation to the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, Rabelais's Tiers Livre, and Brantôme's Dames galantes, LaGuardia formulates a definition of masculinity in this historical context as a set of intertextual practices that men used to relay and to reinforce their gender identities. By examining legal and literary artifacts from this particular period and culture, this study highlights the extent to which this supposedly normative masculinity was historically contingent and materially conditioned by generic practices.

Representing Avarice in Late Renaissance France

Author : Jonathan Patterson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191025895
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Representing Avarice in Late Renaissance France written by Jonathan Patterson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did people talk so much about avarice in late Renaissance France, nearly a century before Molière's famous comedy, L'Avare? As wars and economic crises ravaged France on the threshold of modernity, avarice was said to be flourishing as never before. Yet by the late sixteenth century, a number of French writers would argue that in some contexts, avaricious behaviour was not straightforwardly sinful or harmful. Considerations of social rank, gender, object pursued, time, and circumstance led some to question age-old beliefs. Traditionally reviled groups (rapacious usurers, greedy lawyers, miserly fathers, covetous women) might still exhibit unmistakable signs of avarice — but perhaps not invariably, in an age of shifting social, economic and intellectual values. Across a large, diverse corpus of French texts, Jonathan Patterson shows how a range of flexible genres nourished by humanism tended to offset traditional condemnation of avarice and avares with innovative, mitigating perspectives, arising from subjective experience. In such writings, an avaricious disposition could be re-described as something less vicious, excusable, or even expedient. In this word history of avarice, close readings of well-known authors (Marguerite de Navarre, Ronsard, Montaigne), and of their lesser-known contemporaries are connected to broader socio-economic developments of the late French Renaissance (c.1540-1615). The final chapter situates key themes in relation to Molière's L'Avare. As such, Representing Avarice in Late Renaissance France newly illuminates debates about avarice within broader cultural preoccupations surrounding gender, enrichment and status in early modern France.

Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature

Author : Jeff Persels
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004351515
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature written by Jeff Persels and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty original perspectives on such authors as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as on less familiar works of religious polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, bibliophilism, and ichthyology.

The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France

Author : Lyndan Warner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317028007
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France written by Lyndan Warner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes - and the dignity and misery of man. Analysing these writings side by side, Lyndan Warner reveals the extent to which Renaissance authors borrowed commonplaces from both traditions as they praised or blamed man or woman and habitually considered opposite and contrary points of view. In the law courts reflections on the virtues and vices of man and woman had a practical application-to win cases-and as Warner demonstrates, Parisian lawyers employed this developing rhetoric in family disputes over inheritance and marriage, and amplified it in the published versions of their pleadings. Tracing these ideas and modes of thinking from the writer's quill to the workshops and boutiques of printers and booksellers, Warner uses probate inventories to follow the books to the households of their potential male and female readers. Warner reveals the shifts in printed discussions of human nature from the 1500s to the early 1600s and shows how booksellers adapted the ways they marketed and sold new genres such as essays and lawyers' pleadings.

Complete Poetry and Prose

Author : Louise Labé
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226467163
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Complete Poetry and Prose written by Louise Labé and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labé (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labé played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular and broad-ranging female author, Complete Poetry and Prose also features the only translations of Labé's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the first rhymed translation of Labé's elegies in their entirety.

Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory

Author : Ann Jefferson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139426796
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory written by Ann Jefferson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathalie Sarraute (1900–99) is regarded as one of the major French novelists of the twentieth century. Initially hailed as a leading theorist and exemplar of the nouveau roman, she has come to be regarded as an important author in her own right with her own distinctive concerns. In this major 2000 study of Sarraute, the first in English since her death, Ann Jefferson offers a fresh perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre - her novels, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings - by focusing on the crucial issue of difference which emerges as one of her central preoccupations. Drawing on a variety of critical approaches, Jefferson explores Sarraute's fundamental ambivalence to differences of various kinds including questions of gender and genre. She argues that difference is simultaneously asserted and denied in Sarraute's work, and that the notion of difference, so often celebrated by other writers and thinkers, is shown in Sarraute's work to the inseparable from ambiguity and anxiety.

The World Upside Down in 16th-Century French Literature and Visual Culture

Author : Vincent Robert-Nicoud
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004381821
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The World Upside Down in 16th-Century French Literature and Visual Culture written by Vincent Robert-Nicoud and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The World Upside Down Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an account of the topos of the world upside-down in sixteenth-century French literature and visual culture with reference to the social, political, and religious turmoil of the period.

The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance

Author : Katherine Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521769892
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance written by Katherine Crawford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge transformed notions of sex and sexuality in France.

Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France

Author : Alison Finch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521631860
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France by : Alison Finch

Download or read book Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France written by Alison Finch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete critical survey to date of women's literature in nineteenth-century France.

Rhetoric in the Rest of the West

Author : Shane Borrowman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443822000
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric in the Rest of the West written by Shane Borrowman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the study of the history of rhetoric has expanded to include an ever-growing range of rhetorical traditions, lesser-known figures, and under- and un-studied texts, it has continued to exist in the hermetically sealed binary of West and Rest. Rhetorical scholars have begun uncovering the many marginalized rhetorical traditions silenced by the homogenous nature of our histories themselves, reading and writing new histories of the rhetorical tradition through frames from gender to geography. Despite these substantial challenges to the traditionally received history of rhetoric, many voices are still silenced and many spaces are still excluded—voices speaking within the spaces of the less-than-monolithic West itself. This silencing and excluding continues, perhaps, because of assumptions that no texts exist from these marginalized voices or that substantial rhetorical activity was not conducted in these marginalized spaces—regardless of already extant evidence of rhetorical activity as diverse as rural civic ethos in Classical Greece and Etruscan influences on Roman rhetoric or long-standing passive knowledge of scholarly activity in Medieval Andalusia and Ireland. Rhetoric in the Rest of the West attempts to expand the conversation in those gaps in the history of rhetoric by examining the traditions that lost the cultural competition and have been shrouded in the shadow of the rhetorical tradition.

Gender, Writing, and Performance

Author : Helen J. Swift
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191552518
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Writing, and Performance written by Helen J. Swift and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the poetics of literary defences of women written by men in late-medieval and early-modern France. It fills an important lacuna in studies of this polemic in imaginative literature by bridging the gap between Christine de Pizan and a later generation of women writers and male, Neo-Platonist writers who have recently all received due critical attention. Whereas male-authored defences composed between 1440 and 1538 have previously been dismissed as 'insincere' or 'mere intellectual games', Swift formulates reading strategies to overcome such critical stumbling blocks and engage with the particular rhetorical and historical contexts of these works. Edited and as yet unedited texts by Martin Le Franc, Jacques Milet, Pierre Michault, and Jean Bouchet-catalogues of women, allegorical narratives, and debate poems-are brought together and analysed in detail for the first time in order to explore, for example, how such works address the misogynistic spectre of Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose. The book seeks to understand the contemporary popularity of the case for women (la querelle des femmes) as literary subject matter. It investigates the publication history across this period, from manuscript to print, of Le Franc's Le Champion des dames. Swift further aims to show how these texts hold interest for modern audiences. A nexus of theoretical concerns centred on performance - Judith Butler's gender performativity, Derrida's re-working of Austin's linguistic performativity through spectrality, and dramatic performance - is enlisted to articulate the interpretative engagement expected by querelle writers of their audience. The reading strategies proposed foster a nuanced and enriched perspective on the question of a male author's 'sincerity' when writing in defence of women.

Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France

Author : Timothy Mathews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521023764
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France written by Timothy Mathews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathews examines work by writers and painters working in France in the twentieth century.

Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France

Author : Elizabeth L'Estrange
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843846861
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France by : Elizabeth L'Estrange

Download or read book Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France written by Elizabeth L'Estrange and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First detailed reconstruction of Anne de Graville's library, establishing her as one of the most well-read and erudite poets of the period. In the 1520s, the French noblewoman Anne de Graville composed two poetic works, based on older, canonical, male-authored texts: Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida and Alain Chartier's Belle dame sans mercy. The first, the Beau roman, she offered to Claude, queen of France and wife of Francis I, and the second, the Rondeaux, to the king's mother, Louise of Savoy. With the pro-feminine spin of her rewritings, Anne developed the legacy of another woman writer from 100 years earlier, Christine de Pizan, by entering the on-going debate known as the querelle des femmes. Like Christine, Anne sought to redress the negative view of women found in much contemporary popular literature and to offer role models for both men and women at the contemporary court. This book is the first detailed reconstruction and interpretation of Anne's library and her collecting practice, showing how they relate to her own writings and her literary milieu. It also teases out her links to other women writers of the time interested in the querelle, such as Catherine d'Amboise and Margaret of Navarre. Paying close attention to literary, manuscript, and artistic sources, it establishes Anne's reputation as one of the most erudite poets of the period, and one keenly attuned to the position of women in society as well as to the political sensitivities of the French court.

Ruling Women, Volume 1

Author : Derval Conroy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137568496
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Ruling Women, Volume 1 written by Derval Conroy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramatic texts, Conroy sets out to demonstrate that the dominant discourse which upholds patriarchy at the time is frequently in conflict with alternative discourses which frame gynæcocracy as a feasible, and laudable reality, and which reconfigure (wittingly or unwittingly) the normative paradigm of male authority. Central to the argument is an analysis of how the discourse which constructs government as a male prerogative quite simply implodes when juxtaposed with the traditional political discourse of virtue ethics. In Government, Virtue, and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France, the first volume of the two-volume study, the author examines the dominant discourse which excludes women from political authority before turning to the configuration of women and rulership in the pro-woman and egalitarian discourses of the period. Highly readable and engaging, Conroy’s work will appeal to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism, in addition to scholars of seventeenth-century literature and history of ideas.