Yale French Studies, Number 134

This new volume of Yale French Studies both honors and adds to Edwin M. Duvals scholarship on the history and development of French Renaissance literature. Edwin (Ned) M. Duvals scholarship focuses on teasing out hidden structures and symmetries in the poetry and prose of the French Renaissance, a period when literature underwent radical changes. In honor of Duvals literary sleuthing, the contributors in this issue explore the symmetries, as well as the dissymmetries, the fragility, ambiguities, and contradictions of French Renaissance literary production. This volume addresses evolving literary practices, innovations in genre, and intellectual developments in sixteenthcentury France.