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: | 978-1-61149-054-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $114.95 |
Book Description:
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This book proposes that in a number of French Renaissance texts, 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 classical and medieval discourses on memory.
This book proposes that in a number of French Renaissance texts, 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 classical and medieval discourses on memory.