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Language: en
Pages: 399
Authors: Gary Ferguson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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Focusing on multiple aspects of Renaissance culture, and in particular its preoccupation with the reading and rewriting of classical sources, this book examines
Queer (re)readings in the French Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: Gary Ferguson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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Reading works of Renaissance literature against their ancient classical sources, this book examines representations of homosexuality in sixteenth-century France
Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Lewis C. Seifert
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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Today the friendships that grab people’s imaginations are those that reach across inequalities of class and race. The friendships that seem to have exerted an
Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Kirk D. Read
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The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaini
Setting Plato Straight
Language: en
Pages: 403
Authors: Todd W. Reeser
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In 'Setting Plato Straight', Todd W. Reeser undertakes the first sustained and comprehensive study of Renaissance textual responses to Platonic same-sex sexuali