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Models of Women in Sixteenth-Century French Literature

Models of Women in Sixteenth-Century French Literature

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de l'éditeur)


Pollie BROMILOW, Models of Women in Sixteenth-Century French Literature :Female Exemplarity in the
Histoires tragiques (1559) and the Heptaméron (1559), Ceredigion (Royaume-Uni), Mellen Press, 2007, 224 p.
ISBN10 0-7734-5332-6  
ISBN13 978-0-7734-5332-6


RÉSUMÉ

This book offers a feminist critique of the so-called “crisis ofexemplarity” in late Renaissance texts by comparing and contrastingexamples proposed to female readers in two collections ofsixteenth-century French short stories, Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoirestragiques and Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron. The author proposesthat female exemplarity has its own poetics and cannot be consideredsimply as identical or symmetrical to male exemplarity. What emerges inthe course of the study is an understanding of the different ways inwhich exemplarity enters the life of the female reader: throughhistory, truth, invention, memory and strangeness. 


TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Foreword by Jennifer J. Britnell
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Histoires tragiques and the Heptaméron: Initial Points of Comparison
1 Female Exemplarity in the Histoires tragiques
2 Female Exemplarity in the Heptaméron
3 ‘Mon histoire est si belle et sy veritable’: Vérité, Histoire, Invention and Female Exemplarity
4 Mémoire/Memoria: Women Remembering and Remembering Women
5 ‘Dieu que c’est un estrange animal que la femme’: ‘Strangeness’ and Female
Conclusion
Bibliography before 1800
General Bibliography
Index nominum


À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR

Dr. Pollie Bromilow is currently Lecturer in French in the School ofModern Languages at the University of Liverpool. She earned her Ph.D.in the Department of French at King’s College, Cambridge.