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Product Description: The Unbridled Tongue looks at gossip, rumor, and talking too much in Renaissance France in order to uncover what was specific about these practices in the period. Taking its cue from Erasmus's Lingua, in which both the subjective and political consequences of an idle and unbridled tongue are emphasized, the book investigates the impact of gossip and rumor on contemporary conceptions of identity and political engagement...read more
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9780199662302, titled "The Unbridled Tongue: Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France" | Oxford Univ Pr, April 11, 2016, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The Unbridled Tongue looks at gossip, rumor, and talking too much in Renaissance France in order to uncover what was specific about these practices in the period.
Product Description: Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions...read more
Hardcover:
9780415995405 | Routledge, November 2, 2009, cover price $141.00 | About this edition: Is modernity synonymous with progress?
Paperback:
9781138878433 | Routledge, April 23, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Is modernity synonymous with progress?
Miscellaneous:
9780203864159 | Routledge, November 6, 2009, cover price $110.00
Product Description: Slander and satire were contentious practices in early seventeenth-century France. Seeking to wound, ridicule, destroy or reform, they occupied either side of a dangerous border zone between legitimate and illegitimate criticism. In the first monograph on the subject, Emily Butterworth explores the literary and historical contexts that enabled language to become poisoned and words to wound...read more
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9781904350781 | Legenda, October 30, 2006, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Slander and satire were contentious practices in early seventeenth-century France.
Product Description: This volume, containing selected papers from a conference held by the Department of French in the University of Cambridge in 1999, addresses the exciting and challenging figure of the shifting border in modern French literature and literary theory...read more
Paperback:
9780820456027 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 2001, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This volume, containing selected papers from a conference held by the Department of French in the University of Cambridge in 1999, addresses the exciting and challenging figure of the shifting border in modern French literature and literary theory.
9783906766867 | Peter Lang, June 1, 2001, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: This volume, containing selected papers from a conference held by the Department of French in the University of Cambridge in 1999, addresses the exciting and challenging figure of the shifting border in modern French literature and literary theory.
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