The World Upside Down in 16th-Century French Literature and Visual Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38183-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 426, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Faux Titre

In The World Upside Down in 16th Century French Literature and Visual Culture Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an interdisciplinary account of the topos of the world upside down in early modern France. To call something ‘topsy-turvy’ in the sixteenth century is to label it as abnormal. The topos of the world upside down evokes a world in which everything is inside-out and out of bounds: fish live in trees, children rule over their parents, and rivers flow back to their source. The world upside down proves to be key in understanding how the social, political, and religious turmoil of sixteenth-century France was represented and conceptualised, and allows us to explore the dark side of the Renaissance by unpacking one of its most prevalent metaphors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robert-Nicoud, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Sixteenth-Century World Upside Down

1 Adages, Paradoxes and Emblems

1 Erasmus’s Adages of Inversion

2 Paradoxes

3 Moral Emblems

4 Carnivalesque Emblems

5 Emblems of the Religious Wars

6 Conclusion

2 Rabelais’s World Upside Down

1 Carnivalesque Rituals

2 Grotesque Body

3 Wisdom and Folly

4 Conclusion

3 Religious Satire and Overturned Cooking Pots

1 The Cooking Pot Trope

2 Huguenot Satires

3 Rabelais’s Posthumous Tradition

4 Catholic Responses

5 Conclusion

4 Social and Cosmic Disorders

1 France as a World Upside Down

2 Millenarianism and Apocalypse

3 Monsters and Polemic

4 Conclusion

General Conclusion

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Vincent Robert-Nicoud, D.Phil. (2016), University of Oxford, has published articles on various aspects of early modern French literature, especially on polemic and satire during the French wars of religion.