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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453517103321

Autore

O'Brien John

Titolo

Distant Voices Still Heard [[electronic resource] ] : Contemporary Readings of French Renaissance Literature

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-78138-643-9

1-84631-297-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

QuaintonMalcolm

Disciplina

840.9/003

940.9003

Soggetti

French literature

French literature - History and criticism - 16th century

Romance Literatures

Languages & Literatures

French Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Editors' Foreword; Introduction: The Time of Theory; 1: The Highs and Lows of Structuralist Reading: Rabelais, Pantagruel, chapters 10-13; 2: Rabelais' Strength and the Pitfalls of Methodology; 3: 'Blond chef, grande conqueste': Feminist Theories of the Gaze, the blason anatomique, and Louise Labé's Sonnet 6; 4: Louise Labé's Feminist Poetics; 5: Reading and Writing in the Tenth Story of the Heptaméron; 6: Fetishism and Storytelling in Nouvelle 57 of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron

7: Creative Choreography: Intertextual Dancing in Ronsard's Sonnets pour Hélène: II, 308: An Overshadowed Valediction: Ronsard's Dedicatory Epistle to Villeroy; 9: 'De l'amitié' (Essais 1.28): 'Luy' and 'Moy'; 10: Montaigne's Death Sentences: Narrative and Subjectivity in 'De la diversion' (Essais 3.4); Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The aim of this book is to introduce the modern student to readings of French Renaissance literature, drawing on the perspectives of contemporary literary theories. The volume is organized by paired



readings of five major sixteenth-century French writers, with interpretations covering, among others, structuralism, semiotics, feminism and psychoanalysis. Linking these interpretations is a constant interest in problems such as the role of the reader, the nature of the text and the question of gender. The Introduction contextualizes the encounter between literary theory and Renaissance texts by u