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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782255003321

Titolo

Distant voices still heard : contemporary readings of French Renaissance literature / / edited by John O'Brien and Malcolm Quainton [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-78138-643-9

1-84631-297-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

840.9/003

Soggetti

French literature - 16th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The highs and lows of structuralist reading / François Rigolot -- Rabelais' strength and the pitfalls of methodology / Michel Jeanneret -- "Blonde chef, grande conqueste" / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Louise Labé's feminist poetics / Carla Freccero -- Reading and writing in the tenth story of the Heptaméron / Floyd Gray -- Fetishism and storytelling in the Nouvelle 57 of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron / Nancy Frelick -- Creative choreography / Malcolm Quainton -- An overshadowed valediction / Thomas Greene -- "De l'amitié" / Ann Moss -- Montaigne's death sentences / Lawrence Kritzman.

Sommario/riassunto

This book seeks to satisfy a pedagogical need. It is designed for the new graduate student in England and elsewhere, although it may profitably be used by the enterprising final year undergraduate. Its aim is to introduce the modern student to readings of French Renaissance literature, drawing on the perspectives of contemporary literary theories. The volume is organised 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 contextualises the encounter between literary theory and Renaissance texts by using the contributions as pivotal points in the development of critical thinking about this period in early modern



literature. All foreign language quotations are translated into English, and the book is intended to be of practical interest to a wide range of readers, from modern linguists to those studying critical theory, comparative literature or cultural history.