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

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-20
Mått155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt606 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFaux Titre
Antal sidor284
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004381834

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AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Sixteenth-Century World Upside Down1 Adages, Paradoxes and Emblems1 Erasmus’s Adages of Inversion2 Paradoxes3 Moral Emblems4 Carnivalesque Emblems5 Emblems of the Religious Wars6 Conclusion2 Rabelais’s World Upside Down1 Carnivalesque Rituals2 Grotesque Body3 Wisdom and Folly4 Conclusion3 Religious Satire and Overturned Cooking Pots1 The Cooking Pot Trope2 Huguenot Satires3 Rabelais’s Posthumous Tradition4 Catholic Responses5 Conclusion4 Social and Cosmic Disorders1 France as a World Upside Down2 Millenarianism and Apocalypse3 Monsters and Polemic4 ConclusionGeneral ConclusionBibliographyPrimary SourcesSecondary SourcesIndex Nominum

"Robert-Nicoud is to be applauded for introducing readers to a wealth of polemical treatises, emblems, and images that had significant contemporary importance, but many of which have fallen into near oblivion. [...] Overall, this is a fine book by a young scholar who brings to bear an impressive level of erudition to show his readers how the image of the world upside down evolves and becomes something much more menacing as the sixteenth century progressed." - Bruce Hyes, University of Kansas, in Emblematica: Essays in Word and Image, vol. 3., 2019, pp. 331-333