Storytelling in sixteenth-century France : negotiating shifting forms / edited by Emily E. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Thompson, Emily E., editor.

Conference Name:

Isidore Silver Memorial Colloquium on Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France: Medicine, Literature, and the Arts (2016 : Saint Louis, Missouri)

Series:

Early modern exchange

The early modern exchange

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

French literature.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History--16th century--Congresses.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Storytelling--France--History--16th century--Congresses.

Storytelling.

France.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Storytelling in 16th-century France

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France: The Negotiation of Shifting Forms is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to look to the past to see how, then as now, people turn to storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to refashion the past. Like the change that it reflects, the telling of stories is itself a dynamic process, in which narratives are constantly renewed, revised and reformed. The stories of an era not only assume multiple, changing forms, but also surface in unexpected domains that seem, at first, incompatible with the storytelling enterprise: domains like medicine and diplomacy. Identifying the commonalities between the storytelling approach in diverse domains helps us better understand the conventions of a specific time and place (in this case, different decades in sixteenth-century France) while simultaneously revealing sites of resistance where these conventions were tested. This understanding heightens, in turn, our awareness of the stories shaping our own era"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Putting the Real into Words

1. The Memorialist and the Historian: A Tale of Two Storytellers / Amy Graves Monroe

2. "Ceste histoire veritable": Women's Narrative and Truth-Telling in the Comptes amoureux and the Angoisses douloureuses / Kathleen Loysen

3. The Queen's Quandary: Storytelling in Jeanne d'Albret's Ample Declaration / Marian Rothstein

4. Telling the True and the Real in the Canards Sanglants / David LaGuardia

pt. II Playing with Expectations

5. Urania in Physician's Robes, or Poetry in the Service of Medicine: Girolamo Fracastoro, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (1530) / Colette H. Winn

6. Storytelling at the Crossroads of Diplomacy, History, and Poetry: "The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England," by Lancelot de Carle / JoAnn DellaNeva

7. In Defense of Stories: Henri Estienne Reclaims the Story Collection for a New Readership / Emily E. Thompson

8. Recasting the Heptameron Novellas in Brantome's Vie des dames galantes / Dora E. Polachek

pt. III Repurposing Stories through Shifting Forms

9. Sex, Salvation, Extermination: Contrafacta and the French Wars of Religion / Cathy Yandell

10. Storytelling in Tapestry: Examples for a French Queen / Sheila Ffolliott

11. The Night before Geology: Fossil Stories from Early Modern France / Phillip John Usher.

Notes:

Based on the Isidore Silver Memorial Colloquium held at the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in April 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781644532362

1644532360

9781644532379

1644532379

OCLC:

1262684513

Publisher Number:

99990981419