Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature: Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Autor David P. LaGuardia
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2016
Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature is an in-depth analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe: narrative literature devoted to the subject of adultery and cuckoldry. The text begins with a set of general questions that serve as a conceptual framework for the literary analyses that follow: why were early modern readers so fascinated by the figure of the cuckold? What was his relation to the real world of sexual behavior and gender relations? What effect did he have on the construction of actual masculinities? To respond to these questions, David LaGuardia develops a theoretical approach that is based both on modern critical theory and on close readings of records and documents from the period. Reading early modern legal texts, penance manuals, criminal registers, and exempla collections in relation to the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, Rabelais's Tiers Livre, and Brantôme's Dames galantes, LaGuardia formulates a definition of masculinity in this historical context as a set of intertextual practices that men used to relay and to reinforce their gender identities. By examining legal and literary artifacts from this particular period and culture, this study highlights the extent to which this supposedly normative masculinity was historically contingent and materially conditioned by generic practices.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 33640 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Taylor & Francis – 3 oct 2016 33640 lei  6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1) 75980 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Taylor & Francis – 28 sep 2008 75980 lei  6-8 săpt.

Din seria Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Preț: 33640 lei

Preț vechi: 38677 lei
-13% Nou

Puncte Express: 505

Preț estimativ în valută:
6439 6711$ 5360£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 06-20 ianuarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138245495
ISBN-10: 1138245496
Pagini: 262
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

David LaGuardia is an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College

Recenzii

'David La Guardia's study of masculinity in medieval and early modern French texts argues that masculinity is an intertextual practice, that men write and read for other men, passing on exemplary stories that constitute a kind of "guidebook" for normative masculinity. Examining Rabelais, the Cent nouvelles, and Brantôme, among others, La Guardia draws on extensive erudition to make an argument whose implications go beyond the scope of the study itself. Intertextual Masculinity makes substantial and original contributions to the understanding of normative masculine gender in early modernity and beautifully illustrates the degree to which gendering is a rhetorical practice of intertextuality, then as now.' Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA ’Intertextual Masculinities is a bold and convincing reassessment of these consistently fascinating texts in the light of modern gender and queer theory and classical and medieval models. LaGuardia’s background in late medieval studies provides a rich and erudite map that anchors sixteenth-century literary practice in its vernacular past - a particularly rewarding endeavour that reasserts the connections between medieval and early modern that are often ignored or broken... a provocative and challenging book that raises very pertinent and insistent questions about the study of gender, both then and now.’ French Studies

Cuprins

Introduction; Chapter 1 Masculinity as an Intertextual Concept in Legal, Pastoral, and Clerical Documents of the Late Middle Ages; Chapter 2 Masculinities in the Intertext; Chapter 3 Intertextual Masculinity in Rabelais’s Tiers Livre; Chapter 4 Toward Unstable Masculinity in Brantôme’s Recueil des dames; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

Descriere

Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature is an in-depth analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe: narrative literature devoted to the subject of adultery and cuckoldry. Reading such historical documents as early modern legal texts, penance manuals, and criminal records in relation to the Cent nouvelles nouvelles and works by Rabelais and Brantôme, LaGuardia formulates a definition of masculinity in a specific historical context.