{"product_id":"itineraries-in-french-renaissance-literature-9789004191358","title":"Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eItineraries in French Renaissance Literature brings together a full score of essays by established and rising American-based scholars of the early modern. Arranged according to five themes or genres: Tales and their Tellers, Poets and Poetry, Religious Controversy, Montaigne, and Knowledge Networks, they offer both fresh perspectives on canonical authors such as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as original interpretations of less familiar works of sixteenth-century moment: confessional polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, epigraphy, bibliophilism and even ichthyology. Inspired by and gathered together here to honor the eclectic career of Mary B. McKinley, this anthology integrates many of the most pertinent topics and contemporary approaches of early modern French scholarly inquiry.   Contributors are: Pascale Barthe, Leah L. Chang, Edwin M. Duval, Gary Ferguson, George Hoffmann, Robert J. Hudson, Karen Simroth James, Scott D. Juall, Virginia Krause, Kathleen Long, Stephen Murphy, Corinne Noirot, Jeff Persels, Bernd Renner, Nicolas Russell, Nicholas Shangler, Cynthia Skenazi, Kendall Tarte, Cara Welch, and Cathy Yandell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations List of Contributors  Introduction. Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature  Kendall Tarte, George Hoffmann, and Jeff Persels  On Mary B. McKinley  Part 1: On Telling Tales  1 Puns, Exemplarity, and Women’s Sexual Agency: Nomerfide and Oisille, Heptaméron 5 and 6  Gary Ferguson  2 A Palimpsest of the Heptaméron: Eugène Scribe’s Les Contes de la Reine de Navarre ou la Revanche de Pavie  Cynthia Skenazi  3 Readers Writing in the Gordon Collection Heptaméron  Kendall Tarte  4 Itineraries of Satire: Polysemy and Morality in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron  Bernd Renner  5 Language Lessons: Homophones and Gender Confusion in Des Périers’s Nouvelles Récréations et joyeux devis  Nicholas Shangler  6 The Dido Effect and the Rise of the French Novel  Virginia Krause  Part 2: On Poets and Poetry  7 Maurice Scève and the Feminized Voice of Courtly Lyric  Edwin M. Duval  8 In Search of “La Belle Cordière”: The Rise and Fall of Louise Labé  Leah L. Chang  9 Clément Marot and the Frames of Cultural Memory  Nicolas Russell  10 Naïve douceur: Earthy Grist and Gallic Verve in the Marotic Rondeau  Robert J. Hudson  Part 3: On Religious Controversy  11 Rhetorics of Peace: Pierre de Ronsard and Michel de L’Hospital on the Eve of the French Wars of Religion  Cathy Yandell  12 Bearding the Pope, circa 1562  Jeff Persels  13 Reconversion Tales: How to Make Sense of Lapses in Faith  George Hoffmann  14 Aubigné, Josephus, and Useful Betrayal  Stephen Murphy  15 “The Difficulty is to Judge Well”: Jean de la taille, Deceptive Astrologer (Le Blason des pierres precieuses and La geomance abregee, 1574)  Corinne Noirot  Part 4: On Montaigne  16 Montaigne, Monsters, and Modernity  Kathleen Long  17 Montaigne’s Response to the Alcibiades Question  Cara Welch  Part 5: On the Sciences and Knowledge Networks  18 France’s Mid-Sixteenth-Century Imperial Gaze on Canada:  The Dieppe School of Hydrography, the Kingdom of Saguenay,  and the Mise en scène of Possession  Scott D. Juall  19 Guillaume Rondelet’s Monkfish, or Natural History as Social Network  Pascale Barthe  20 Making the Stones Speak: The Curious Observations of Gabriele Simeoni  Karen Simroth James  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210621083991,"sku":"9789004191358","price":166.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/itineraries-in-french-renaissance-literature-9789004191358","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}