Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France : : Negotiating Shifting Forms / / ed. by Emily E. Thompson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Della Neva, Jo-Ann,; DellaNeva, JoAnn,; Ffolliott, Sheila,; Graves Monroe, Amy,; LaGuardia, David,; Loysen, Kathleen,; Monroe, Amy Graves,; Polachek, Dora E.,; Rothstein, Marian,; Thompson, Emily E.,; Usher, Phillip John,; Winn, Colette H.,; Yandell, Cathy,; ffolliott, Sheila,
• HerausgeberIn: Thompson, Emily E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Early Modern Exchange
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.) :; 11 b-w images

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Putting the Real into Words -- 1 The Memorialist and the Historian: A Tale of Two Storytellers -- 2 “Ceste histoire veritable”: Women’s Narrative and Truth-Telling in the Comptes amoureux and the Angoisses douloureuses -- 3 The Queen’s Quandary: Storytelling in Jeanne d’Albret’s Ample Déclaration -- 4 Telling the True and the Real in the Canards Sanglants -- Part II Playing with Expectations -- 5 Urania in Physician’s Robes, or Poetry in the Service of Medicine: Girolamo Fracastoro, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (1530) -- 6 Storytelling at the Crossroads of Diplomacy, History, and Poetry: “The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England,” by Lancelot de Carle -- 7 In Defense of Stories: Henri Estienne Reclaims the Story Collection for a New Readership -- 8 Recasting the Heptaméron Novellas in Brantôme’s Vie des dames galantes -- Part III Repurposing Stories through Shifting Forms -- 9 Sex, Salvation, Extermination: Contrafacta and the French Wars of Religion -- 10 Storytelling in Tapestry: Examples for a French Queen -- 11 The Night before Geology: Fossil Stories from Early Modern France -- Contributors -- Index