Debate Of Folly And Love

Author : Louise Labé
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015042864002

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Debate of Folly and Love by Louise Labé Pdf

Louise Labé, a French Renaissance poet, was one of the most exciting and influential writers of her time. Many scholars have translated her poems into English, but few have addressed her prose. Yet Debate of Folly and Love generated enormous enthusiasm among its first audience when it was published in 1555. Not only does it constitute a major part of Labé's work, it also contains her most innovative and original ideas. It is a witty, serious commentary on women's roles in society, love, marriage, and reason vs. folly - issues still pertinent in our times and attractive to modern readers. This translation takes into account all the recent research by scholars on Labé and sheds new light on her original text. The introduction situates Labé's life and work; notes, a bibliography, and a glossary complete this work.

Author : Louise Labé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Allegories
ISBN : UCAL:B3114876

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The Debate Between Folly and Cupid by Louise Labé Pdf

Author : O. Classe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors
ISBN : 1884964362

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Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L by O. Classe Pdf

Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004492165

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Marita: or the Folly of Love by Stephanie Newell Pdf

On 20th January 1886, the first installment of what is probably the first West African novel in English was published in a Ghanaian newspaper, the Western Echo, by a male author using the pseudonym ‘A. Native’. Preceded by a proud editorial which welcomed the arrival of this ‘work of “local effort”’ by ‘a native gentleman’, Marita: or the Folly of Love was serialised in 40 episodes, ending two years later in January 1888. It describes the disastrous consequences for African men of uniting according to the colonial Marriage Ordinance of 1884: this ordinance enshrined the Christian, Victorian ideal of marriage as a monogamous and lifelong union, and is shown in the story to transform peaceful, well-behaved women into shrews and termagants who are bent upon seizing domestic power from their husbands. The story proved to be so popular and relevant that it survived the closure of the Western Echo in December 1887 and found a new host in the Gold Coast Echo, before disappearing from the press, unfinished, in February 1888.

Author : Dr Lyndan Warner
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409482147

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The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France by Dr Lyndan Warner Pdf

The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes - and the dignity and misery of man. Analysing these writings side by side, Lyndan Warner reveals the extent to which Renaissance authors borrowed commonplaces from both traditions as they praised or blamed man or woman and habitually considered opposite and contrary points of view. In the law courts reflections on the virtues and vices of man and woman had a practical application-to win cases-and as Warner demonstrates, Parisian lawyers employed this developing rhetoric in family disputes over inheritance and marriage, and amplified it in the published versions of their pleadings. Tracing these ideas and modes of thinking from the writer's quill to the workshops and boutiques of printers and booksellers, Warner uses probate inventories to follow the books to the households of their potential male and female readers. Warner reveals the shifts in printed discussions of human nature from the 1500s to the early 1600s and shows how booksellers adapted the ways they marketed and sold new genres such as essays and lawyers' pleadings.

Author : Louise Labé
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226467160

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Complete Poetry and Prose by Louise Labé Pdf

Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labé (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labé played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular and broad-ranging female author, Complete Poetry and Prose also features the only translations of Labé's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the first rhymed translation of Labé's elegies in their entirety.

Author : Pamela Joseph Benson,Victoria Kirkham
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0472068814

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Strong Voices, Weak History by Pamela Joseph Benson,Victoria Kirkham Pdf

From a March 2000 conference at the University of Pennsylvania, 16 essays explore such aspects as women's dialogue writing in 16th-century France, Maria Domitilla Galluzzi and the Rule of St. Clare of Assisi, courtly origins of new literary canons, the earliest anthology of English women's texts, and the reinvention of Anne Askew. One of the contri

Author : James V. Mirollo,Peter C. Herman
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 087413675X

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Opening the Borders by James V. Mirollo,Peter C. Herman Pdf

Early modern studies is increasingly devoted to opening the borders between supposedly discrete areas of study, including supposedly antithetical theoretical approaches."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Janet Levarie Smarr
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472025688

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Joining the Conversation by Janet Levarie Smarr Pdf

Avoiding the male-authored model of competing orations, French and Italian women of the Renaissance framed their dialogues as informal conversations, as letters with friends that in turn became epistles to a wider audience, and even sometimes as dramas. No other study to date has provided thorough, comparative view of these works across French, Italian, and Latin. Smarr's comprehensive treatment relates these writings to classical, medieval, and Renaissance forms of dialogue, and to other genres including drama, lyric exchange, and humanist invective -- as well as to the real conversations in women's lives -- in order to show how women adapted existing models to their own needs and purposes. Janet Levarie Smarr is Professor of Theatre and Italian Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Author : Sonya Stephens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521581672

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A History of Women's Writing in France by Sonya Stephens Pdf

This volume was the first historical introduction to women's writing in France from the sixth century to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars provide an introduction in English to the wealth and diversity of French women writers, offering fascinating readings and perspectives. The volume as a whole offers a cohesive history of women's writing which has sometimes been obscured by the canonisation of a small feminine elite. Each chapter focuses on a given period and a range of writers, taking account of prevailing sexual ideologies and women's activities in, or their relation to, the social, political, economic and cultural surroundings. Complemented by an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works and a biographical guide to more than one hundred and fifty women writers, it represents an invaluable resource for those wishing to discover or extend their knowledge of French literature written by women.

Author : Madeleine Roches,Catherine Roches
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226723396

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From Mother and Daughter by Madeleine Roches,Catherine Roches Pdf

Among the best-known and most prolific French women writers of the sixteenth century, Madeleine (1520–87) and Catherine (1542–87) des Roches were celebrated not only for their uncommonly strong mother-daughter bond but also for their bold assertion of poetic authority for women in the realm of belles lettres. The Dames des Roches excelled in a variety of genres, including poetry, Latin and Italian translations, correspondence, prose dialogues, pastoral drama, and tragicomedy; collected in From Mother and Daughter are selections from their celebrated oeuvre, suffused with an engaging and enduring feminist consciousness. Madeleine and Catherine spent their entire lives in civil war–torn Poitiers, where a siege of the city, vandalism, and desecration of churches fueled their political and religious commentary. Members of an elite literary circle that would inspire salon culture during the next century, the Dames des Roches addressed the issues of the day, including the ravages of religious civil wars, the weak monarchy, education for women, marriage and the family, violence against women, and the status of women intellectuals. Through their collaborative engagement in shared public discourse, both mother and daughter were models of moral, political, and literary agency.

Author : Reinier Leushuis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004343719

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Speaking of Love: The Love Dialogue in Italian and French Renaissance Literature by Reinier Leushuis Pdf

In Speaking of Love: The Love Dialogue in Italian and French Renaissance Literature, Reinier Leushuis examines a corpus of sixteenth-century love dialogues that exemplifies the dialogue’s mimetic qualities and validates its place in the literary landscape of the Italian and French Renaissance.

Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780820308661

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Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation by Katharina M. Wilson Pdf

The dawn of humanism in the Renaissance presented privileged women with great opportunities for personal and intellectual growth. Sexual and social roles still determined the extent to which a woman could pursue education and intellectual accomplishment, but it was possible through the composition of poetry or prose to temporarily offset hierarchies of gender, to become equal to men in the act of creation. Edited by Katharina M. Wilson, this anthology introduces the works of twenty-five women writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, among them Marie Dentière, a Swiss evangelical reformer whose writings were so successful they were banned during her lifetime; Gaspara Stampa, a cultivated courtesan of Venetian aristocratic circles who wrote lyric poetry that has earned her comparisons to Michelangelo and Tasso; Hélisenne de Crenne, a French aristocrat who embodied the true spirit of the Renaissance feminist, writing both as novelist and as champion of her sex; Helene Kottanner, Austrian chambermaid to Queen Elizabeth of Hungary whose memoirs recall her daring theft of the Holy Crown of Saint Stephen for her esteemed mistress; and Lady Mary Sidney Wroth, the first Englishwoman known to write a full-length work of fiction and compose a significant body of secular poetry. Offering a seldom seen counterpoint to literature written by men, Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation presents prose and poetry that have never before appeared in English, as well as writings that have rarely been available to the nonspecialist. The women whose writings are included here are united by a keen awareness of the social limitations placed upon their creative potential, of the strained relationship between their gender and their work. This concern invests their writings with a distinctive voice--one that carries the echoes of a male aesthetic while boldly declaring battle against it.

Author : John Payne Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026240397

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A Few Odds and Ends, for Cheerful Friends by John Payne Collier Pdf

Author : Andrew Cutler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : English language
ISBN : WISC:89099893612

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English Grammar and Parser, Made Up of Proverbs, Interesting Anecdotes, Prose and Poetical Selections ... by Andrew Cutler Pdf