Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing - Couverture rigide

Gray, Floyd

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 052177327X ISBN 13 : 9780521773270

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This book examines the significance of rhetoric and print culture in French Renaissance writing about women.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical - Gray reveals the extent to which these marginalized texts reflect literary concerns rather than social reality. He then moves from a close analysis of the rhetorical factor in the Querelle des femmes to consider ways in which writing, as a textual phenomenon, inscribes its own, sometimes ambiguous, meaning. Gray offers richly detailed readings of writing by Rabelais, Jean Flore, Montaigne, Louise Labé, Pernette du Guillet and Marie de Gournay among others, challenging the inherent anachronism of those forms of criticism that fail to take account of the rhetorical and cultural conditions of the period.

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"...thought-provoking contribution to early modern French scholarship..." SubStance

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 052177327X
• ISBN 13: 9780521773270
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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