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Antonia Szabari - Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France - 9780804762922 - V9780804762922
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Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France

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Description for Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France Hardback. Less Rightly Said is a detailed study of polemical literature in sixteenth-century France that explores the role of offense ("scandal") in a religious and a rhetorical sense and traces the emergence of a new political genre through both canonical polemical works and popular satires and invectives. Num Pages: 304 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 540.

Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"—yet this period, torn apart by religious differences, also saw the rise of a much cruder, personal satire that aimed at converting readers to its ideological, religious, and, increasingly, political ideas. By focusing on popular pamphlets along with more canonical works, Less Rightly Said shows that the satirists did not simply renounce the moral ideal of elite, humanist scholarship but rather transmitted and manipulated that scholarship according to their ideological needs. Szabari identifies the emergence of a ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804762922
SKU
V9780804762922
Shipping Time
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About Antonia Szabari
Antónia Szabari is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

Reviews for Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France
"A thorough and often amusing history of 'scandals and readers in sixteenth-century France' is to be found in Less Rightly Said by Antónia Szabari. She makes sense of a wide and motley collection of hitherto neglected examples of humanists fashioning facts and prejudices to serve as verbal weapons. This is an essential contribution to the study not only of comedy ... Read more

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