Transformations of Memory and Forgetting in Sixteenth-Century France: Marguerite de Navarre, Pierre de Ronsard, Michel de Montaigne

by Nicolas Russell

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.

Throughout Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages, a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164453133X
• ISBN13: 9781644531334
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher