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The Heptameron
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Author : Marguerite De Navarre
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2004-07-01
The Heptameron written by Marguerite De Navarre and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-01 with Fiction categories.
In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, they are inspired - by recalling Boccaccio's Decameron - to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. The stories, however, soon degenerate into a verbal battle between the sexes, as the characters weave tales of corrupt friars, adulterous noblemen and deceitful wives. From the cynical Saffredent to the young idealist Dagoucin or the moderate Parlamente - believed to express De Navarre's own views - The Heptameron provides a fascinating insight into the minds and passions of the nobility of sixteenth century France.
Critical Tales
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Author : John D. Lyons
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-11-11
Critical Tales written by John D. Lyons and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Appearing in print for the first time in 1558, the book that we now know as the Heptameron is the work of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Left incomplete, but dearly modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, the Heptameron consists of a frame narrative and seventy-two tales told by five men and five women characters in the shady meadow at Notre Dame de Sarrance. As John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley contend in their introduction to this volume, the tales of the Heptameron portray the conflicts, ruptures, and upheavals that agitated early modern French society. They present a forum in which different elements of Renaissance and Reformation culture meet and, at times, collide. Contradictory suppositions about men and women are easily discerned behind almost all of the stories, and the discussions among the fictional storytellers represent attitudes both feminist and misogynist, masculinist, and misandrous. Less oppositional are the religious conflicts among the storytellers; some are less ardently religious while others are concerned with the corporeal rather than the spiritual. The stories of the Heptameron 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. The conflicts of the Reformation loom over the Heptameron not just as the origin of its ideological tensions but also as a prominent symptom of the larger, related disruptions that marked sixteenth-century Europe. Provocative and wide-ranging, appealing to specialists in numerous fields, Critical Tales is the first collective volume of studies in English on the Heptameron. The authors—Robert D. Cottrell, Hope Glidden, Marcel Tetel, Donald Stone, Tom Conley, Michel Jeanneret, Cathleen M. Bauschatz, François Cornilliat and Ullrich Langer, Mary B. McKinley, Philippe de Lajarte, Andre Tournon, Daniel Russell, François Rigolot, Paula Sommers, and Edwin M. Duval—present different approaches to Marguerite de Navarre's tales, dealing with such topics as confession, rape, the impact of printing on knowledge and narrative, narrative theory, and androgyny. The contributors to Critical Tales, like the storytellers of the Heptameron, are not afraid to challenge the critical establishment and one another. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of French and comparative literature and women's studies.
The Heptameron Of Margaret Queen Of Navarre
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Author : Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1849
The Heptameron Of Margaret Queen Of Navarre written by Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1849 with categories.
The Heptameron
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Author : Marguerite, Queen of Navarre
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-11-01
The Heptameron written by Marguerite, Queen of Navarre and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Fiction categories.
DIVTen men and women engage in a storytelling battle of the sexes that abounds in murder, adultery, remorse, and revenge, all set in 16th-century France. Translation by Arthur Machen. /div
The Heptameron
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Author : Marguerite D'Angouleme (Queen of Navarre.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
The Heptameron written by Marguerite D'Angouleme (Queen of Navarre.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with categories.
The Heptameron
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Author : Queen Margaret of Navarre
language : en
Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Heptameron written by Queen Margaret of Navarre and has been published by Digireads.com Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Published in 1558, ten years after the author's death, "The Heptameron" is an unfinished work inspired by the "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio, containing seventy-two short stories written in French by Marguerite de Navarre, Queen of Navarre and sister of Francois I. The story begins with five gentlemen and five lady travelers who find themselves stranded in a small town in the Pyrenees, and decide to entertain themselves through story-telling, which rapidly evolves into an all-out verbal battle between the sexes. Shocking to many modern readers, "The Heptameron" is a fascinating glimpse into sixteenth century notions of love, lust, infidelity and other sexual matters. It is believed that many of these stories were taken directly from members of the court of Francois I; however, fictional or true, it is certain that this book will delight, offend and educate readers today as it has for centuries.
The Heptameron
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Author : Marguerite de Navarre
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1984-06-05
The Heptameron written by Marguerite de Navarre and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-06-05 with Fiction categories.
In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, they are inspired - by recalling Boccaccio's Decameron - to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. The stories, however, soon degenerate into a verbal battle between the sexes, as the characters weave tales of corrupt friars, adulterous noblemen and deceitful wives. From the cynical Saffredent to the young idealist Dagoucin or the moderate Parlamente - believed to express De Navarre's own views - The Heptameron provides a fascinating insight into the minds and passions of the nobility of sixteenth century France. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Tales Of The Heptameron
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Author : Margaret Queen of Navarre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-04
Tales Of The Heptameron written by Margaret Queen of Navarre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04 with Fiction categories.
The Heptameron (generally accepted to be the work of Marguerite de Navarre, Queen of Navarre and the sister of Francois I), like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's Decameron, is a collection of tales told by characters -- in this case, five gentlemen and five ladies stranded in an abbey.
Rape And Writing In The Heptam Ron Of Marguerite De Navarre
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Author : Patricia Francis Cholakian
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1991
Rape And Writing In The Heptam Ron Of Marguerite De Navarre written by Patricia Francis Cholakian and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Literary Collections categories.
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), the sister of the French king François I, composed the Heptaméron as a complex collection of seventy-two novellas, creating one of the first examples of realistic, psychological fiction in French literature. These novellas, framed by debates among ten storytellers, all noble lords and ladies, reveal the author’s desire to depart from the purely masculine voice of the age. Cholakian contends that this Renaissance text is characterized by feminine writing. She reads the text as the product of the author’s personal experience. Beginning her study with the rape narrative in the autobiographical novella 4, she examines how the Heptaméron interacts with male literary traditions and narrative conventions about gender relations. She analyzes such words as rape, and honor, noting how they are defined differently by men and women and how these differences in perception affect the development of both plot and character.
The Tales Of The Heptameron
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Author : Queen of Navarre Margaret
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-09-01
The Tales Of The Heptameron written by Queen of Navarre Margaret and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-01 with categories.