Dispositio : problematic ordering in French Renaissance literature / by Paul J. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, P. J. (Paul J.)

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 157.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 157

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

French literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on the classical concept of rhetorical dispositio , this study gives new interpretations of a number of literary texts of the French Renaissance, some of them well-known (by Rabelais, Du Bellay and Montaigne), others less-known (the Pierres précieuses by Remy Belleau and the anonymous collections of emblematic fables). All these texts are organized according to an often problematic and disruptive dispositio that dissociates itself from the prescribed and preexisting models. This study not only seeks to approach the problem of literary ordering from a historical and theoretical perspective, it also intends to frame this topic in a more general context: grotesque bodiliness in Rabelais’s novels; historiography, gender and travelogue in Montaigne’s Essays ; imitation and intermediality in the case of the poets and the fabulists.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / A.J. Vanderjagt

Introduction / A.J. Vanderjagt

Chapter One. Pantagruel And Gargantua As Mock Biographies / A.J. Vanderjagt

Chapter Two. Dissecting Quaresmeprenant / A.J. Vanderjagt

Chapter Three. Rabelais And The Art Of Memory / A.J. Vanderjagt

Chapter Four. Architecture And Poetry: The Antiquitez De Rome / Joachim Du Bellay

Chapter Five. Changing Stuctures In Remy Belleau’S Pierres Précieuses (1576) / A.J. Vanderjagt

Chapter Six. Petrarch Translated And Illustrated, From Clément Marot To Jan Van Der Noot / A.J. Vanderjagt

Chapter Seven. Dispositio In Fable Books: The Gheeraerts Filiation (1567-1617) / A.J. Vanderjagt

Chapter Eight. Montaigne, Plutarch And Historiography / A.J. Vanderjagt

Chapter Nine. ‘Good Wives’. Dispositio And Gender In The Essais / A.J. Vanderjagt

Chapter Ten. Erratic Structures In De La Vanité / A.J. Vanderjagt

Epilogue / A.J. Vanderjagt

General Bibliography / A.J. Vanderjagt

Index / A.J. Vanderjagt.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-93996-X

9786611939960

90-474-3178-2

OCLC:

646789672

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004163058.i-248 DOI