Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing

Klappentext 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. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues--misogynist! feminist! autobiographical! homosexual and medical--Gray reveals the extent to which these marginalized texts reflect literary concerns rather than social reality. His new readings of Rabelais! Montaigne! Louise Labé and others! challenge the inherent anachronism of criticism that fails to take account of the cultural context of the period. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Floyd Gray, Floyd (University of Michigan Gray
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2000
• EAN: 9780521773270
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77327-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies