Storytelling In Sixteenth Century France

Author : Emily E. Thompson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532386

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Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France by Emily E. Thompson Pdf

Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to refashion the past. This collection explores different modalities of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds of narrative categories. Through studies of storytelling in tapestries, stone, and music as well as distinct genres of historical, professional, and literary writing (addressing both erudite and more common readers), the contributors to this collection evoke a society in transition, wherein traditional techniques and materials were manipulated to express new realities. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Kathleen Loysen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820468185

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Conversation and Storytelling in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century French Nouvelles by Kathleen Loysen Pdf

This book focuses on the role of represented speech in four short story collections from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France: the anonymous Evangiles des quenouilles; Martial d'Auvergne's Arrêts d'Amour; Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron; and Noël Du Fail's Propos rustiques. As a study of the narrative staging of the acts of storytelling and conversing, it raises issues of orality, aurality, and literacy, as well as of the processes of textual production, transmission, and reception. In addition, the conversational frame of these short story collections deliberately sets up questions about the accessibility and reliability of truth. While these collections claim to enter upon the path toward universal truth, the difficulty of such an enterprise is revealed through their very narrative structure, where the polyphony of opposing voices and divergent opinions is engaged by the very acts of conversation and storytelling themselves.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804717990

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Fiction in the Archives by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide--unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwise excusable--a supplicant had to tell the king a story. These stories took the form of letters of remission, documents narrated to royal notaries by admitted offenders who, in effect, stated their case for pardon to the king. Thousands of such stories are found in French archives, providing precious evidence of the narrative skills and interpretive schemes of peasants and artisans as well as the well-born. This book, by one of the most acclaimed historians of our time, is a pioneering effort to us the tools of literary analysis to interpret archival texts: to show how people from different stations in life shaped the events of a crime into a story, and to compare their stories with those told by Renaissance authors not intended to judge the truth or falsity of the pardon narratives, but rather to refer to the techniques for crafting stories. A number of fascinating crime stories, often possessing Rabelaisian humor, are told in the course of the book, which consists of three long chapters. These chapters explore the French law of homicide, depictions of "hot anger" and self-defense, and the distinctive characteristics of women's stories of bloodshed. The book is illustrated with seven contemporary woodcuts and a facsimile of a letter of remission, with appendixes providing several other original documents. This volume is based on the Harry Camp Memorial Lectures given at Stanford University in 1986.

Author : G.H. Powell,P.B. Brant?me
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : History
ISBN : 9785877535916

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Duelling Stories of the Sixteenth Century from the French of Brant?me by G.H. Powell,P.B. Brant?me Pdf

Brantôme was a gentleman who traveled through Europe in the latter half of the 16th century. The stories he relates not only describe famous duels, but they also give glimpses into lives of royalty and celebrities.

Author : Gary Ferguson,David LaGuardia
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015062460517

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Narrative Worlds by Gary Ferguson,David LaGuardia Pdf

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804714126

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Fiction in the Archives by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

Author : Pierre De Bourdeille Brantome
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498143458

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Dueling Stories of the Sixteenth Century by Pierre De Bourdeille Brantome Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ceremonial exchange
ISBN : 0199242887

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The Gift in Sixteenth-century France by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relations--or do they lose their power and importance once the market takes hold and puts a price on every exchange? These questions are central to our sense of social relations past and present, and they are at the heart of this book by one of our most intersting and renowned historians.

Author : Michael Meere
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192658029

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Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy by Michael Meere Pdf

The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. It traces and examines the ethical and poetic stakes of violence, as playwrights were experimenting with the newly discovered genre during decades of religious and civil war (c. 1550-1598). The study begins with an overview of the origins of French vernacular tragedy and the complex relationships between violence, performance, ethics, and poetics. The volume focuses on specific plays and analyzes biblical, mythological, historical, and politically topical tragedies—including the stories of Cain and Abel, David and Goliath, Medea, the Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, the Roman general Regulus, and the assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1588—to show how the multifarious uses of violence on stage shed light on a range of pressing issues during that turbulent time, such as religion, gender, politics, and militantism.

Author : George Herbert Powell,Pierre Bourdeille De Brantome
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358276161

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Duelling Stories of the Sixteenth Century from the French of Brantome by George Herbert Powell,Pierre Bourdeille De Brantome Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Pollie Bromilow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123325875

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Models of Women in Sixteenth-century French Literature by Pollie Bromilow Pdf

This book offers a feminist critique of the so-called crisis of exemplarity in late Renaissance texts by comparing and contrasting examples proposed to female readers in two collections of sixteenth-century French short stories, Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron. The author proposes that female exemplarity has its own poetics and cannot be considered simply as identical or symmetrical to male exemplarity. What emerges in the course of the study is an understanding of the different ways in which exemplarity enters the life of the female reader: through history, truth, invention, memory and strangeness.

Author : Katherine Butler,Samantha Bassler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783273713

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Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by Katherine Butler,Samantha Bassler Pdf

The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

Author : Donald Stone
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008967419

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France in the Sixteenth Century by Donald Stone Pdf

"Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its innumerable adaptations and translations. The volume illuminates the novel's various pre-histories, critical contexts and subsequent cultural transformations. Chapters explore literary history, Gothic revival scholarship, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sexology, philosophy, occultism, cultural history, critical race theory, theatre and film history, and the place of the vampire in Europe and beyond. These studies provide an accessible guide of cutting-edge scholarship to one of the most celebrated modern Gothic horror stories. This Companion will serve as a key resource for scholars, teachers and students interested in the enduring force of Dracula and the seemingly inexhaustible range of the contexts it requires and readings it might generate."--

Author : Gustave Masson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019889438

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Mediaeval France From the Reign of Hughes Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Gustave Masson Pdf

In this comprehensive work, Masson explores the political, social, and cultural developments of medieval France. With a keen eye for detail and a gift for storytelling, he brings to life this fascinating era in western history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Kathryn A. Duys,Elizabeth Emery,Elizabeth Nicole Emery,Laurie Postlewate
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843917

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Telling the Story in the Middle Ages by Kathryn A. Duys,Elizabeth Emery,Elizabeth Nicole Emery,Laurie Postlewate Pdf

New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.