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Dispositio: Problematic Ordering In French Renaissance Literature (Brill's Studies In Intellectual History)

By Paul J. Smith

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2007
ISBN
9004163050, 9789004163058
LCC
PQ231 .S66 2007
Open Library ID
OL12799362M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5566297 bytes)
Series
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 157
Pages
248\261
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Drawing on the classical concept of rhetorical dispositio, this study gives new interpretations of a number of literary texts of the French Renaissance, some of them well-known (by Rabelais, Du Bellay and Montaigne), others less-known (the Pierres precieuses by Remy Belleau and the anonymous collections of emblematic fables). All these texts are organized according to an often problematic and disruptive dispositio that dissociates itself from the prescribed and preexisting models. This study not only seeks to approach the problem of literary ordering from a historical and theoretical perspective, it also intends to frame this topic in a more general context: grotesque bodiliness in Rabelais s novels; historiography, gender and travelogue in Montaigne s Essays; imitation and intermediality in the case of the poets and the fabulists."

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