Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France : : Negotiating Shifting Forms /

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

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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 soci...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.) :; 11 b-w images
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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

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