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The Resource Critical tales : new studies of the Heptameron and early modern culture, edited by John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley

Critical tales : new studies of the Heptameron and early modern culture, edited by John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley

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"Appearing in print for the first time in 1558, the book that we now know as the Heptameron is the work of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Left incomplete, but clearly modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, the Heptameron consists of a frame narrative and seventy-two tales told by five men and five women characters in the shady meadow at Notre Dame de Sarrance." "As John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley contend in their introduction to this volume, the tales of the Heptameron portray the conflicts, ruptures, and upheavals that agitated early modern French society. They present a forum in which different elements of Renaissance and Reformation culture meet and, at times, collide. Contradictory suppositions about men and women are easily discerned behind almost all of the stories, and the discussions among the fictional storytellers represent attitudes both feminist and misogynist, masculinist and misandrous. Less oppositional are the religious conflicts among the storytellers; some are less ardently religious while others are concerned with the corporeal rather than the spiritual." "The stories of the Heptameron are often cautionary tales about the corruption of the late medieval church, about decadent priests and monks, or about the unfortunate faithful whose belief in the efficacy of good works for salvation leads to disaster and death. The conflicts of the Reformation loom over the Heptameron not just as the origin of its ideological tensions, but also as a prominent symptom of the larger, related disruptions that marked sixteenth-century Europe." "Provocative and wide-ranging, appealing to specialists in numerous fields, Critical Tales is the first collective volume of studies in English on the Heptameron. The authors - Robert D. Cottrell, Hope Glidden, Marcel Tetel, Donald Stone, Tone Conley, Michel Jeanneret, Cathleen M. Bauschatz, Francois Cornilliat and Ullrich Langer, Mary B. McKinley, Philippe de Lajarte, Andre Tournon, Daniel Russell, Francois Rigolot, Paula Sommers, and Edwin M. Duval - present different approaches to Marguerite de Navarre's tales, dealing with such topics as confession, rape, the impact of printing on knowledge and narrative, narrative theory, and androgyny. The contributors to Critical Tales, like the storytellers of the Heptameron, are not afraid to challenge the critical establishment and one another. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of French and comparative literature and women's studies."--BOOK JACKET
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xii, 296 p.
Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1.
  • Inmost Cravings: The Logic of Desire in the Heptameron/
  • Robert D. Cottrell
  • p. 3
  • 2.
  • Gender, Essence, and the Feminine (Heptameron 43)/
  • Hope Glidden
  • p. 25
  • 3.
  • Rhetoric of Lyricism in the Heptameron/
  • Marcel Tetel
  • p. 41
  • 4.
  • "La Malice des hommes": "L'Histoire des satyres" and the Heptameron/
  • Donald Stone
  • p. 53
  • 5.
  • Graphics of Dissimulation: Between Heptameron 10 and l'histoire tragique/
  • Tom Conley
  • p. 65
  • 6.
  • Modular Narrative and the Crisis of Interpretation/
  • Michel Jeanneret
  • p. 85
  • 7.
  • "Voyla, mes dames . .": Inscribed Women Listeners and Readers in the Heptameron/
  • Cathleen M. Bauschatz
  • p. 104
  • 8.
  • Naked Narrator: Heptameron 62/
  • Francois Cornilliat
  • Ullrich Langer
  • p. 123
  • 9.
  • Telling Secrets: Sacramental Confession and Narrative Authority in the Heptameron/
  • Mary B. Mckinley
  • p. 146
  • 10.
  • Voice of the Narrators in Marguerite de Navarre's Tales/
  • Philippe De Lajarte
  • p. 172
  • 11.
  • Rules of the Game/
  • Andre Tournon
  • p. 188
  • 12.
  • Some Ways of Structuring Character in the Heptameron/
  • Daniel Russell
  • p. 203
  • 13.
  • Heptameron and the "Magdalen Controversy": Dialogue and Humanist Hermeneutics/
  • Francois Rigolot
  • p. 218
  • 14.
  • Writing the Body: Androgynous Strategies in the Heptameron/
  • Paula Sommers
  • p. 232
  • 15.
  • "Et puis, quelles nouvelles?": The Project of Marguerite's Unfinished Decameron/
  • Edwin M. Duval
  • p. 241
  • Critical Tales: An Epilogue.
  • p. 263
  • Selected Bibliography.
  • p. 281
  • Contributors.
  • p. 287
  • Index.
  • p. 291
Isbn
9780812232066
Instance
Label
Critical tales : new studies of the Heptameron and early modern culture
Title
Critical tales
Title remainder
new studies of the Heptameron and early modern culture
Statement of responsibility
edited by John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Appearing in print for the first time in 1558, the book that we now know as the Heptameron is the work of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Left incomplete, but clearly modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, the Heptameron consists of a frame narrative and seventy-two tales told by five men and five women characters in the shady meadow at Notre Dame de Sarrance." "As John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley contend in their introduction to this volume, the tales of the Heptameron portray the conflicts, ruptures, and upheavals that agitated early modern French society. They present a forum in which different elements of Renaissance and Reformation culture meet and, at times, collide. Contradictory suppositions about men and women are easily discerned behind almost all of the stories, and the discussions among the fictional storytellers represent attitudes both feminist and misogynist, masculinist and misandrous. Less oppositional are the religious conflicts among the storytellers; some are less ardently religious while others are concerned with the corporeal rather than the spiritual." "The stories of the Heptameron are often cautionary tales about the corruption of the late medieval church, about decadent priests and monks, or about the unfortunate faithful whose belief in the efficacy of good works for salvation leads to disaster and death. The conflicts of the Reformation loom over the Heptameron not just as the origin of its ideological tensions, but also as a prominent symptom of the larger, related disruptions that marked sixteenth-century Europe." "Provocative and wide-ranging, appealing to specialists in numerous fields, Critical Tales is the first collective volume of studies in English on the Heptameron. The authors - Robert D. Cottrell, Hope Glidden, Marcel Tetel, Donald Stone, Tone Conley, Michel Jeanneret, Cathleen M. Bauschatz, Francois Cornilliat and Ullrich Langer, Mary B. McKinley, Philippe de Lajarte, Andre Tournon, Daniel Russell, Francois Rigolot, Paula Sommers, and Edwin M. Duval - present different approaches to Marguerite de Navarre's tales, dealing with such topics as confession, rape, the impact of printing on knowledge and narrative, narrative theory, and androgyny. The contributors to Critical Tales, like the storytellers of the Heptameron, are not afraid to challenge the critical establishment and one another. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of French and comparative literature and women's studies."--BOOK JACKET
Cataloging source
DLC
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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1946-
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  • Lyons, John D.
  • McKinley, Mary B
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  • Women and literature
  • French language
  • Narration (Rhetoric)
  • Love stories, French
  • Characters and characteristics in literature
  • Literary form
  • Marguerite
Label
Critical tales : new studies of the Heptameron and early modern culture, edited by John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-286) and index
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volume
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rdacarrier
Content category
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Content type MARC source
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Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1.
  • Inmost Cravings: The Logic of Desire in the Heptameron/
  • Robert D. Cottrell
  • p. 3
  • 2.
  • Gender, Essence, and the Feminine (Heptameron 43)/
  • Hope Glidden
  • p. 25
  • 3.
  • Rhetoric of Lyricism in the Heptameron/
  • Marcel Tetel
  • p. 41
  • 4.
  • "La Malice des hommes": "L'Histoire des satyres" and the Heptameron/
  • Donald Stone
  • p. 53
  • 5.
  • Graphics of Dissimulation: Between Heptameron 10 and l'histoire tragique/
  • Tom Conley
  • p. 65
  • 6.
  • Modular Narrative and the Crisis of Interpretation/
  • Michel Jeanneret
  • p. 85
  • 7.
  • "Voyla, mes dames . .": Inscribed Women Listeners and Readers in the Heptameron/
  • Cathleen M. Bauschatz
  • p. 104
  • 8.
  • Naked Narrator: Heptameron 62/
  • Francois Cornilliat
  • Ullrich Langer
  • p. 123
  • 9.
  • Telling Secrets: Sacramental Confession and Narrative Authority in the Heptameron/
  • Mary B. Mckinley
  • p. 146
  • 10.
  • Voice of the Narrators in Marguerite de Navarre's Tales/
  • Philippe De Lajarte
  • p. 172
  • 11.
  • Rules of the Game/
  • Andre Tournon
  • p. 188
  • 12.
  • Some Ways of Structuring Character in the Heptameron/
  • Daniel Russell
  • p. 203
  • 13.
  • Heptameron and the "Magdalen Controversy": Dialogue and Humanist Hermeneutics/
  • Francois Rigolot
  • p. 218
  • 14.
  • Writing the Body: Androgynous Strategies in the Heptameron/
  • Paula Sommers
  • p. 232
  • 15.
  • "Et puis, quelles nouvelles?": The Project of Marguerite's Unfinished Decameron/
  • Edwin M. Duval
  • p. 241
  • Critical Tales: An Epilogue.
  • p. 263
  • Selected Bibliography.
  • p. 281
  • Contributors.
  • p. 287
  • Index.
  • p. 291
Control code
ocm28422229
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xii, 296 p.
Isbn
9780812232066
Lccn
93026575
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
Critical tales : new studies of the Heptameron and early modern culture, edited by John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-286) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1.
  • Inmost Cravings: The Logic of Desire in the Heptameron/
  • Robert D. Cottrell
  • p. 3
  • 2.
  • Gender, Essence, and the Feminine (Heptameron 43)/
  • Hope Glidden
  • p. 25
  • 3.
  • Rhetoric of Lyricism in the Heptameron/
  • Marcel Tetel
  • p. 41
  • 4.
  • "La Malice des hommes": "L'Histoire des satyres" and the Heptameron/
  • Donald Stone
  • p. 53
  • 5.
  • Graphics of Dissimulation: Between Heptameron 10 and l'histoire tragique/
  • Tom Conley
  • p. 65
  • 6.
  • Modular Narrative and the Crisis of Interpretation/
  • Michel Jeanneret
  • p. 85
  • 7.
  • "Voyla, mes dames . .": Inscribed Women Listeners and Readers in the Heptameron/
  • Cathleen M. Bauschatz
  • p. 104
  • 8.
  • Naked Narrator: Heptameron 62/
  • Francois Cornilliat
  • Ullrich Langer
  • p. 123
  • 9.
  • Telling Secrets: Sacramental Confession and Narrative Authority in the Heptameron/
  • Mary B. Mckinley
  • p. 146
  • 10.
  • Voice of the Narrators in Marguerite de Navarre's Tales/
  • Philippe De Lajarte
  • p. 172
  • 11.
  • Rules of the Game/
  • Andre Tournon
  • p. 188
  • 12.
  • Some Ways of Structuring Character in the Heptameron/
  • Daniel Russell
  • p. 203
  • 13.
  • Heptameron and the "Magdalen Controversy": Dialogue and Humanist Hermeneutics/
  • Francois Rigolot
  • p. 218
  • 14.
  • Writing the Body: Androgynous Strategies in the Heptameron/
  • Paula Sommers
  • p. 232
  • 15.
  • "Et puis, quelles nouvelles?": The Project of Marguerite's Unfinished Decameron/
  • Edwin M. Duval
  • p. 241
  • Critical Tales: An Epilogue.
  • p. 263
  • Selected Bibliography.
  • p. 281
  • Contributors.
  • p. 287
  • Index.
  • p. 291
Control code
ocm28422229
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xii, 296 p.
Isbn
9780812232066
Lccn
93026575
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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