Critical Tales : : New Studies of the "Heptameron" and Early Modern Culture / / ed. by John D. Lyons, Mary B. McKinley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bauschatz, Cathleen M.,; Conley, Tom,; Cornilliat, François,; Cottrell, Robert D.,; Duval, Edwin M.,; Glidden, Hope,; Jeanneret, Michel,; Lajarte, Philippe de,; Langer, Ullrich,; McKinley, Mary B.,; Rigolot, François,; Russell, Daniel,; Sommers, Paula,; Stone, Donald,; Tetel, Marcel,; Tournon, André,
• HerausgeberIn: Lyons, John D.,; McKinley, Mary B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

Appearing in print for the first time in 1558, the book that we know as the Heptameron is the work of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. The tales of the Heptameron portray the conflicts, ruptures, and upheavals that agitated early modern French society. They are often cautionary tales about the corruption of the late medieval church, about decadent priests and monks, or about the unfortunate faithful whose belief in the efficacy of good works for salvation leads to disaster and death.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Generic Transformations and Graphic Transgressions -- 1. Inmost Cravings: The Logic of Desire in the Heptameron -- 2. Gender, Essence, and the Feminine (Heptameron 43) -- 3. The Rhetoric of Lyricism in the Heptameron -- 4. "La Malice des hommes" : "L'Histoire des satyres" and the Heptameron -- 5. The Graphics of Dissimulation: Between Heptameron 10 and l'histoire tragique -- II. Narrative Systems and Structures -- 6. Modular Narrative and the Crisis of Interpretation -- 7. "Voyla, mes dames ..." : Inscribed Women Listeners and Readers in the Heptameron -- 8. Naked Narrator: Heptameron 62 -- 9. Telling Secrets: Sacramental Confession and Narrative Authority in the Heptameron -- 10. The Voice of the Narrators in Marguerite de Navarre's Tales -- 11. Rules of the Game -- III. Character and Community -- 12. Some Ways of Structuring Character in the Heptameron -- 13. The Heptameron and the "Magdalen Controversy": Dialogue and Humanist Hermeneutics -- 14. Writing the Body: Androgynous Strategies in the Heptameron -- 15. "Et puis, quelles nouvelles?": The Project of Marguerite's Unfinished Decameron -- Critical Tales: An Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter