THE RHETORIC OF SEXUALITY AND THE LITERATURE OF THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE by Lawrence D. Kritzman ( 9780521356244 )

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THE RHETORIC OF SEXUALITY AND THE LITERATURE OF THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE

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0521356245

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9780521356244

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

28 March, 1991

Series:

Cambridge Studies in French 33

Pages:

278

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This 1991 book examines the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the literature of the French Renaissance.

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This 1991 book examines the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the literature of the French Renaissance by exploring the issues of gender, the body, and repression in many of the key literary texts of the period, including Sceve, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Ronsard, and Montaigne. By means of detailed readings of individual texts, Lawrence Kritzman examines how sexuality functions as a rhetorical trope through which desire is represented. Professor Kritzman's study concentrates on three major objectives: the issues of gender identity and sexual difference in French Renaissance texts; the question of how the body is represented in the blasons, love poetry and prose of the period; and the way in which figural language depicts the libidinal, political and social tensions at work in texts. It was the first wide-ranging theoretical study to provide reading models to investigate the taboo subject of sexuality underlying literary production in the French Renaissance.

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