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Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative,
interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern
era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to
look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to
storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to
reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to
refashion the past. This collection explores different modalities
of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared
techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds
of narrative categories. Through studies of storytelling in
tapestries, stone, and music as well as distinct genres of
historical, professional, and literary writing (addressing both
erudite and more common readers), the contributors to this
collection evoke a society in transition, wherein traditional
techniques and materials were manipulated to express new
realities. Published by the University of Delaware Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Â
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative,
interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern
era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to
look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to
storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to
reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to
refashion the past. This collection explores different modalities
of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared
techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds
of narrative categories. Through studies of storytelling in
tapestries, stone, and music as well as distinct genres of
historical, professional, and literary writing (addressing both
erudite and more common readers), the contributors to this
collection evoke a society in transition, wherein traditional
techniques and materials were manipulated to express new realities.
In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and
perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family
as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American
literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the
connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts
from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which
incidents such as murder, cannibalism, poisoning, the burial of the
living, the failed burial of the dead, and subsequent apparitions
of ghosts that haunt the household unite “high” and “low”
cultural traditions. This book questions the traditional separation
between the highly honored genre of tragedy and the less respected
and generally less well-known genres of histoires tragiques, gothic
tales and novels, and horror stories. Published by University of
Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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