The construction of a national vernacular literature in the Renaissance essays in honor of Edwin M. Duval Duval, Edwin M. honouree. Devos, Jessica editor. Hayes, E. Bruce editor. text bibliography festschrift essay Criticism, interpretation, etc. ctu 2018 2018 monographic eng print 191 pages ; 24 cm. Editor's preface : French Renaissance literary and scholarly legacies / Jessica Devos and Bruce Hayes -- Rabelais's innovations. The "design" of Rabelais's Gargantua : a note on structure and meaning at midpoint / François Rigolot ; Panurge and the blameless knight : from Bouchet's Panegyric to Rabelais's Pantagruel / François Cornilliat ; Cynic charity and Christian satire : blending genres and programming readings in the "Prologue of the author" to Rabelais's Tiers livre / Edward Tilson -- Rabelaisian encryptions / Mireille Huchon -- Italy and France : identity and boundaries. Praise and (more) blame of Dante in late Renaissance France / Richard Cooper ; Intimacy and public display : secretarial design in Montaigne's Journal de voyage / Richard E. Keatley -- Women and the fashioning of poetic legacies. "Idol of my life" : idolatry and poetic immortalization in Scève's Délie / Brooke D. Di Lauro ; Ronsard's Discours for two queens : the poetics of political pamphlets / Cathy Yandell ; Ronsard's poetic progeny : fashioning Madeleine de l'Aubespine's literary persona / Jessica Devos -- Politics, religion, and propaganda during the wars of religion. From affinity groups to partisan narratives : Brantôme, Pierre de L'Estoile, and the guises / Dora Polachek ; From monologue to dialogue : the uses and misuses of genre in Le pacifique / Shira Weidenbaum -- Ethical legacy of humanism. Of an illusion in Montaigne / David Quint. special editors: Jessica Devos and Bruce Hayes. Includes bibliographical references. e-fr--- French literature 16th century French literature 16th century History and criticism Renaissance France France Intellectual life 16th century French literature Intellectual life Renaissance France 1500-1599 fast PQ261 .C66 2018 HF3 930 134 840.9/003 Yale French studies ; no. 134 9780300235999 0300235992 YUS 190103 20190718163625.0 in00004077237 eng