Dispositio
Subtitle: Problematic Ordering in French Renaissance Literature (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
Publisher: BRILL; Brill
Published: December 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789004163058
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; History - General History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; History: World; European - French; Renaissance; General; History; History & Surveys - Medieval; Medieval; 16th century; French literature; History and criticism
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."--Jacket.