Marguerite de Navarre's Shifting gaze : perspectives on gender, class, and politics in the Heptameron / / Elizabeth Chesney Zegura

• Autore: Zegura Elizabeth Chesney
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 pages)
• Disciplina: 946.52042092
• Soggetto topico: Women and literature - France - History - 16th century; Women and literature - France
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Between life and literature : the many faces of Marguerite de Navarre -- 3. Gender and patriarchy : a many-sided view -- 4. Upstairs, downstairs : the dynamics of class and rank in the Heptameron -- 5. Power, politics, and modes of governance in the Heptameron.
• Sommario/riassunto: Marguerite de Navarre's Heptam ron, composed in the 1540s and first published posthumously in 1558 and 1559, has long been an interpretive puzzle. De Navarre (1492-1549), sister of King Francis I of France, was a controversial figure in her lifetime. Her evangelical activities and proximity to the Crown placed her at the epicenter of her country's internecine strife and societal unrest. Yet her short stories appear to offer few traces of the sociopolitical turbulence that surrounded her.In Marguerite de Navarre's Shifting Gaze , however, Elizabeth Zegura argues that the Heptam ron 's innocuous appearance camouflages its serious insights into patriarchy and gender, social class, and early modern French politics, which emerge from an analysis of the text's shifting perspectives. Zegura's approach, which focuses on visual cues and alternative standpoints and viewing positions within the text, hinges upon foregrounding "les choses basses" (lowly things) to which the devisante (storyteller) Oisille draws our attention in nouvelle (novella) 2 of the Heptam ron , using this downward, archaeological gaze to excavate layers of the text that merit more extensive critical attention.While her conclusions cast a new light on the literature, life, and times of Marguerite de Navarre, they are nevertheless closely aligned with recent scholarship on this important historical and literary figure.
• Titolo autorizzato: Marguerite de Navarre's Shifting gaze
• ISBN: 1-315-39432-4; 0-367-34672-9; 1-315-39434-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150342503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Women and gender in the early modern world.