Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing

Zusammenfassung In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected by rhetorical conventions and the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Gray offers new readings of a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist! feminist! autobiographical! homosexual and medical. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Discourses of misogyny; 2. Irony and the sexual other; 3. Anonymity and the poetics of regendering; 4. The women in Montaigne's life; 5. Sexual marginality; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gray Floyd, Floyd Gray, Floyd (University of Michigan Gray
• Mitarbeit: Michael Sheringham (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 16.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521024877
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02487-7
• Seiten: 240
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in French
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Romanische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft