Distant voices still heard : contemporary readings of French Renaissance literature / editors, John O'Brien and Malcolm Quainton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Brien, John, 1954-

Quainton, Malcolm.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

French literature--16th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Physical Description:

232 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

Text in English and French.

Contents:

Introduction: The Time of Theory / John O'Brien 1

1 The Highs and Lows of Structuralist Reading: Rabelais, Pantagruel, chapters 10-13 / Francois Rigolot 53

2 Rabelais' Strength and the Pitfalls of Methodology: Tiers Livre, chapters 7-18 / Michel Jeanneret 68

3 'Blond chef, grande conqueste': Feminist Theories of the Gaze, the blason anatomique and Louise Labe's Sonnet 6 / Ann Rosalind Jones 85

4 Louise Labe's Feminist Poetics / Carla Freccero 107

5 Reading and Writing in the Tenth Story of the Heptameron / Floyd Gray 123

6 Fetishism and Storytelling in Nouvelle 57 of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron / Nancy Frelick 138

7 Creative Choreography: Intertextual Dancing in Ronsard's Sonnets pour Helene: II, 30 / Malcolm Quainton 155

8 An Overshadowed Valediction: Ronsard's Dedicatory Epistle to Villeroy / Thomas Greene 171

9 'De l'amitie' (Essais 1.28): 'Luy' and 'Moy' / Ann Moss 185

10 Montaigne's Death Sentences: Narrative and Subjectivity in 'De la diversion' (Essais 3.4) / Lawrence Kritzman 202.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0853237859

0853237956

OCLC:

45486585