Transformations of Memory and Forgetting in Sixteenth-Century France Marguerite de Navarre, Pierre de Ronsard, Michel de Montaigne |
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| Author:
| Russell, Nicolas |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64453-133-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Delaware Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $49.00 |
Book Description:
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This book proposes that in a number of French Renaissance texts, produced in varying contexts and genres, we observe a shift in thinking about memory and forgetting. Focusing on a corpus of texts by Marguerite de Navarre, Pierre de Ronsard, and Michel de Montaigne, it explores several parallel transformations of and challenges to traditional discourses on the human faculty of memory.
This book proposes that in a number of French Renaissance texts, produced in varying contexts and genres, we observe a shift in thinking about memory and forgetting. Focusing on a corpus of texts by Marguerite de Navarre, Pierre de Ronsard, and Michel de Montaigne, it explores several parallel transformations of and challenges to traditional discourses on the human faculty of memory.