Dispositio: Problematic Ordering in French Renaissance Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16305-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 157, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 609 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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 précieuses 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Paul J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and editions consulted

Introduction

PART I. RABELAIS
1. Pantagruel and Gargantua as Mock Biographies
2. Dissecting Quaresmeprenant
3. Rabelais and the Art of Memory

PART II. POETRY
4. Architecture and Poetry: the Antiquitez de Rome by Joachim du Bellay
5. Changing Stuctures in Remy Belleau’s Pierres précieuses (1576)
6. Petrarch Translated and Illustrated, from Clément Marot to Jan van der Noot
7. Dispositio in Fable Books: The Gheeraerts Filiation (1567-1617)

PART III. MONTAIGNE
8. Montaigne, Plutarch and Historiography
9. ‘Good Wives’. Dispositio and Gender in the Essais
10. Erratic Structures in De la vanité

Epilogue

General Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul J. Smith, Ph.D. (1985) in French Literature, University of Leiden, is Professor of French Literature at the University of Leiden. He has published extensively on the early modern and modern French literature and its reception in the Netherlands. He is co-editor of Montaigne and the Low Countries (1580-1700) (Brill, 2007).