Storytelling In Sixteenth Century France

Author : Emily E. Thompson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1644532387
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France written by Emily E. Thompson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to refashion the past. This collection explores different modalities of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds of narrative categories. Through studies of storytelling in tapestries, stone, and music as well as distinct genres of historical, professional, and literary writing (addressing both erudite and more common readers), the contributors to this collection evoke a society in transition, wherein traditional techniques and materials were manipulated to express new realities. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804717991
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiction in the Archives written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide--unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwise excusable--a supplicant had to tell the king a story. These stories took the form of letters of remission, documents narrated to royal notaries by admitted offenders who, in effect, stated their case for pardon to the king. Thousands of such stories are found in French archives, providing precious evidence of the narrative skills and interpretive schemes of peasants and artisans as well as the well-born. This book, by one of the most acclaimed historians of our time, is a pioneering effort to us the tools of literary analysis to interpret archival texts: to show how people from different stations in life shaped the events of a crime into a story, and to compare their stories with those told by Renaissance authors not intended to judge the truth or falsity of the pardon narratives, but rather to refer to the techniques for crafting stories. A number of fascinating crime stories, often possessing Rabelaisian humor, are told in the course of the book, which consists of three long chapters. These chapters explore the French law of homicide, depictions of "hot anger" and self-defense, and the distinctive characteristics of women's stories of bloodshed. The book is illustrated with seven contemporary woodcuts and a facsimile of a letter of remission, with appendixes providing several other original documents. This volume is based on the Harry Camp Memorial Lectures given at Stanford University in 1986.

Author : Kathleen Loysen
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820468181
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversation and Storytelling in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century French Nouvelles written by Kathleen Loysen and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the role of represented speech in four short story collections from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France: the anonymous Evangiles des quenouilles; Martial d'Auvergne's Arrêts d'Amour; Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron; and Noël Du Fail's Propos rustiques. As a study of the narrative staging of the acts of storytelling and conversing, it raises issues of orality, aurality, and literacy, as well as of the processes of textual production, transmission, and reception. In addition, the conversational frame of these short story collections deliberately sets up questions about the accessibility and reliability of truth. While these collections claim to enter upon the path toward universal truth, the difficulty of such an enterprise is revealed through their very narrative structure, where the polyphony of opposing voices and divergent opinions is engaged by the very acts of conversation and storytelling themselves.

Author : Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (seigneur de)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duelling Stories of the Sixteenth Century from the French of Brantôme written by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (seigneur de) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Ferguson
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Worlds written by Gary Ferguson and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804714129
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiction in the Archives written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199242887
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gift in Sixteenth-century France written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relations--or do they lose their power and importance once the market takes hold and puts a price on every exchange? These questions are central to our sense of social relations past and present, and they are at the heart of this book by one of our most intersting and renowned historians.

Author : Pierre De Bourdeille Brantome
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498143455
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dueling Stories of the Sixteenth Century written by Pierre De Bourdeille Brantome and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.

Author : Michael Meere
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192658026
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy written by Michael Meere and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. It traces and examines the ethical and poetic stakes of violence, as playwrights were experimenting with the newly discovered genre during decades of religious and civil war (c. 1550-1598). The study begins with an overview of the origins of French vernacular tragedy and the complex relationships between violence, performance, ethics, and poetics. The volume focuses on specific plays and analyzes biblical, mythological, historical, and politically topical tragedies—including the stories of Cain and Abel, David and Goliath, Medea, the Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, the Roman general Regulus, and the assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1588—to show how the multifarious uses of violence on stage shed light on a range of pressing issues during that turbulent time, such as religion, gender, politics, and militantism.

Author : George Herbert Powell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017404227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duelling Stories of the Sixteenth Century From the French of Brantôme written by George Herbert Powell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.