Research Catalog

Title

Teaching French women writers of the Renaissance and Reformation / edited by Colette H. Winn.

Publication

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Winn, Colette H.

Description

vii, 431 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Options for teaching ; 31

Uniform Title

Options for teaching 31.

Subject

• French literature > Women authors > Study and teaching
• French literature > 16th century > Study and teaching
• French literature > 17th century > Study and teaching

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-420) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Nicole Estienne's Les misères de la femme mariée and the Marriage Controversy in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century / Brigitte Roussel -- Picturing Great Ladies of the Renaissance Who Helped Pave the Literary Way / Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier -- Jeanne de Jussie, the Convent of Saint Clare, and the Reformation of Geneva / Carrie F. Klaus -- Humanism and Women's Writing: The Case of Hélisenne de Crenne / Diane S. Wood and Laura B. Bergman -- Production and Reproduction: Contextualizing Women's Writing as Labor / Susan Broomhall -- The Invention of Female Authorship in Early Modern France / François Rigolot -- Brantôme's Women: Revising the Masculine Point of Reference / Dora E. Polachek -- Pernette Du Guillet among the Néoplatoniciennes of Her Time: Private Conversation Meant to Be Overheard / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Louise Labé's Elegies; or, The Assuming of a Borrowed Voice / Zeina Hakim --^
• A Case Study in Close Reading: Pernette Du Guillet's Chanson 7 / Danielle Trudeau -- Gender and Genres: Teaching Women and the Epistolary Genre / Jane Couchman -- Georgette de Montenay's Emblemes, ou devises chrestiennes: Material Object, Digital Subject / Carla Zecher -- The Pasquin and Political Commentary: The Case of Anne de Marquets / Edith Joyce Benkov -- Feminine Authorial Ethos: The Use of Marie de Gournay's Discours sur ce livre as an Introduction to Her Collected Works / Jean-Philippe Beaulieu -- Louise Labe and Italian in Sixteenth-Century Lyon / Leslie Zarker Morgan -- Reading the Heptameron: Feminist and Queer Approaches / Carla Freccero -- Reading Hélisenne with Transference / Nancy Frelick -- The Anatomy of Gender: Decoding Petrarchan Lyrics (Labé, Scève, Ronsard) / Ceécile Alduy -- How Should Sixteenth-Century Feminine Poetry Be Taught? The Exemplary Case of Marie de Romieu / Claude La Charité --^
• The Cross-Dressed Text: Reading Men Writing as Women in Sixteenth-Century France / Leah Chang -- Teaching the Influence of Renaissance Women Writers on One Another: The Case of Catherine Des Roches / Anne R. Larsen -- Women's Writing, Anne de Marquets, and the Priory of Poissy / Gary Ferguson -- Marie Dentière's Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and the Heptameron / Mary B. McKinley -- Variations on the Same Tune: The Love Lyrics of Louise Labé and Gabrielle de Coignard / Colette H. Winn -- Teaching Louise Labé's Prose in Translation: The Dedicatory Letter and the Debate of Folly and Love / Deborah Lesko Baker -- Print Resources for Teaching and Further Study / Colette H. Winn.

ISBN

• 1603290893 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781603290890 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1603290907 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781603290906 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011014867

OCLC

• 642841597
• SCSB-10769945

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library