Sampling the book: Renaissance prologues and the French conteurs

This is the first comprehensive study of the prefaces of the major French Renaissance writers of short narrative form. The recent renewal of interest in the art of printing, in the performative aspects of prefatory discourse, and in reader response has stimulated research in liminary forms

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Main Author: Losse, Deborah N. 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg Bucknell Univ. Press u.a. 1994
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:This is the first comprehensive study of the prefaces of the major French Renaissance writers of short narrative form. The recent renewal of interest in the art of printing, in the performative aspects of prefatory discourse, and in reader response has stimulated research in liminary forms
Sampling the Book sets the prologues of better-known storytellers - such as Rabelais, Bonaventure Des Periers, and Marguerite de Navarre - in the context of the prologues of both major and minor conteurs: Philippe de Vigneulles, Noel du Fail, Jacques Yver, le Seigneur de Cholieres, Nicholas de Troyes, Beroalde de Verville, and others
Renaissance printing practices had a profound effect on the development of the prologue. As printed works began to reach an increasingly expanded public, writers began to use the liminary space of their works not only to announce the title and contents of the work to follow but to try to influence the reception of the text by offering guidelines to the reader
Physical Description:136 S.
ISBN:0838752446

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