Lawrence D. Kritzman

Rhetoric of Sexuality & French

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1991 book examines the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the literature of the French Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780521356244
• ISBN-10: 0521356245
• Artikelnr.: 24970387

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Phetorics of Gender: 1. Pernette du Guillet and a voice of one's own
2. Rabelais and the representation of male subjectivity: the Rondibilis episode as case study
3. Verba erotica: Marguerite de Navarre and the rhetoric of silence
4. Pedagogical graffiti and the rhetoric of conceit
5. Montaigne's family romance
Part II. Figures of the Body: A. Disfiguring the Feminine: 6. Architecture of the Utopian body: the blasons of Marot and Ronsard
7. Fictions of the body and the gender of the text in Ronsard's 1552 Amours
B. The text as body: 8. My body, my text: Montaigne and the rhetoric of self-portraiture
Part III. Allegories of Repression: 9. Maurice Scève: the rhetoric of dream and the language of love
10. Sexuality and the political unconscious in Rabelais' Quatre Livre: three case studies: A. Pro-logos: excess and the golden mean
B. Rabelais' comedy of cruelty: the chicanous episode
C. Rabelais in Papimania: power and the rule of law
Bibliography of works cited.