Dispositio : problematic ordering in French Renaissance literature
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Dispositio : problematic ordering in French Renaissance literature
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 157）
Brill, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-240) and index
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Description
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 precieuses 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.
Table of Contents
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 precieuses (1576)
6. Petrarch Translated and Illustrated, from Clement 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 vanite
Epilogue
General Bibliography
Index
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