Transformations of Memory and Forgetting in Sixteenth-Century France
Author: Nicolas Russell
Publisher: University of Delaware
Published: 2011-04-29
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1611490553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book proposes that in a number of French Renaissance texts, 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 classical and medieval discourses on memory.