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Zusatztext This informed, well-researched account of excessive uses of language in the sixteenth century and the early decades of the seventeenth century in France makes a sizable contribution to discussions of nonliterary, popular, and nonelite discourses and their contorted relationship to genteel, literary practices ... One of the important insights made in the book is that "the French public sphere was born from tension and discord and not from the rather genteel Habermasian reasoned discussion" (145) ... Butterworth's book repeatedly reveals its tenacious vitality and political and social usefulness. ... The Unbridled Tongue is an excellent, elaborate account of discordant voices and those of the commentators and critics, the verbal struggle of talking about talk that left some more powerful while excluding others, thus building nonetheless the prehistory of the modern public sphere. Informationen zum Autor Emily Butterworth is a Senior Lecturer in French at King's College London. She is the author of Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France, and articles on gossip, scandal, obscenity, and other forms of deviant and excessive language in the early modern period. She is co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project 'Gossip and Nonsense: Excessive Language in the French Renaissance'. Klappentext The Unbridled Tongue is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it is the first book to address Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame. Zusammenfassung The Unbridled Tongue is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it is the first book to address Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Unbridled Tongues Too Much Talk Speaking in Tongues: Pentecost and Prophecy Masks: Rabelais Noise: Heptaméron Licence: Ronsard Theatre: Montaigne Court: Brantôme Women: Les Caquets de l'accouchée Conclusion ...
