Method and Variation: Narrative in Early Modern French Thought

Emma Gilby; Paul White

Method and Variation
Narrative in Early Modern French Thought

Edited by Emma Gilby and Paul White

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Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), French essayist

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28 May 2013 • 132pp

ISBN: 978-1-907975-36-3 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95

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The keywords of classical narrative theory – fable, history, and argument – open up enquiries into literality and fictiveness for subsequent generations of thinkers. This collection of essays explores the place of such enquiries in early modern French thought, spanning authors as diverse as Montaigne, Descartes, La Rochefoucauld, Mme de Villedieu, and Mme de Lafayette. How is the language of verisimilitude, veracity, proof, and invention embedded across genres and media? How do the explorations of fictional texts contribute in significant ways to the terms in which philosophical debates are conducted? How do different kinds of digressive or anecdotal narrative feed back into more abstract analyses? What does it mean to read what we would term ‘philosophical’ texts in a ‘literary’ way? We bring together some of the most distinguished and exciting scholars working in the field of early modern French Studies today.

Emma Gilby is Senior Lecturer in French, University of Cambridge. Paul White is Temporary Lecturer in French, University of Cambridge.

Reviews:

‘Overall, this is an engaging volume that usefully emphasizes the narrative methods and less scientific genres which underlie early modern French thought and its philosophical fictions.’ — unsigned notice, Forum for Modern Language Studies 50.2, April 2014, 230-31
‘This timely and important volume addresses the role of narration in revealing early modern French belief patterns... In demonstrating the range of ways in which early modern authors reconfigure and renegotiate narrative’s relationship to thought, argument, and proof, the contributors to this volume together add critical understanding to the complex articulation of fable, history, and argument in the early modern period.’ — Allison Stedman, French Studies 68.4, October 2014, 542-43

Contents:

1-10	Introduction Emma Gilby, Paul White	Cite
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11-22	Sun Worshippers John O'Brien	Cite
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23-40	Anecdote, Example, Method: Renaissance Accounts of the Death of Pliny the Elder Rowan Tomlinson	Cite
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41-54	Image and Idolatry: The Case of Louis Richeome Anthony Ossa-Richardson	Cite
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55-68	The Book of Nature and the Book of Metaphors Alexander Roose	Cite
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69-78	Anecdotes and Affects Michael Moriarty	Cite
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79-88	Novel proofs: Villedieu’s Les Désordres de l’amour Katherine Ibbett	Cite
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89-102	François Bernier: Philosophers’ Fictions / Traveller’s Visions Isabelle Moreau	Cite
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103-116	Language, Image and the Double John D. Lyons	Cite
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Edited by Emma Gilby and Paul White

Method and Variation
Narrative in Early Modern French Thought