The World Upside Down in 16th-Century French Literature and Visual Culture

Vincent Robert-Nicoud (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

298 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-38183-4 (ISBN)

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In The World Upside Down Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an account of the topos of the world upside-down in sixteenth-century French literature and visual culture with reference to the social, political, and religious turmoil of the period.

In The World Upside Down in 16th Century French Literature and Visual Culture Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an interdisciplinary account of the topos of the world upside down in early modern France. To call something ‘topsy-turvy’ in the sixteenth century is to label it as abnormal. The topos of the world upside down evokes a world in which everything is inside-out and out of bounds: fish live in trees, children rule over their parents, and rivers flow back to their source. The world upside down proves to be key in understanding how the social, political, and religious turmoil of sixteenth-century France was represented and conceptualised, and allows us to explore the dark side of the Renaissance by unpacking one of its most prevalent metaphors.

Vincent Robert-Nicoud, D.Phil. (2016), University of Oxford, has published articles on various aspects of early modern French literature, especially on polemic and satire during the French wars of religion.

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List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Sixteenth-Century World Upside Down

1 Adages, Paradoxes and Emblems

1 Erasmus’s Adages of Inversion

2 Paradoxes

3 Moral Emblems

4 Carnivalesque Emblems

5 Emblems of the Religious Wars

6 Conclusion

2 Rabelais’s World Upside Down

1 Carnivalesque Rituals

2 Grotesque Body

3 Wisdom and Folly

4 Conclusion

3 Religious Satire and Overturned Cooking Pots

1 The Cooking Pot Trope

2 Huguenot Satires

3 Rabelais’s Posthumous Tradition

4 Catholic Responses

5 Conclusion

4 Social and Cosmic Disorders

1 France as a World Upside Down

2 Millenarianism and Apocalypse

3 Monsters and Polemic

4 Conclusion

General Conclusion

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index Nominum

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Faux Titre ; 426
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	606 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-38183-X / 900438183X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-38183-4 / 9789004381834
Zustand	Neuware