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Robert-Nicoud Vincent Corentin <1987-> |
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Titolo |
The world upside-down in 16th century French literature and visual culture / / by Vincent Robert-Nicoud |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Rodopi, , [2018] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (298 pages) |
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Collana |
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Faux titre : etudes de langue et litterature francaises, , 0167-9392 ; ; volume 426 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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French literature - 16th century - History and criticism |
Symbolic inversion in literature |
Symbolic inversion in art |
Literature and society - France - History - 16th century |
Satire, French |
Art - France - History |
Renaissance - France |
France History 16th century |
France Intellectual life 16th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2016. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- The Sixteenth-Century World Upside Down -- Adages, Paradoxes and Emblems -- Rabelais’s World Upside Down -- Religious Satire and Overturned Cooking Pots -- Social and Cosmic Disorders -- General Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In The World Upside Down in 16th Century French Literature and Visual Culture Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an interdisciplinary account of the topos of the world upside down in early modern France. To call something ‘topsy-turvy’ in the sixteenth century is to label it as abnormal. The topos of the world upside down evokes a world in which everything is inside-out and out of bounds: fish live in trees, children rule over their parents, and rivers flow back to their source. The world upside down proves to be key in understanding how the social, |
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