- Title Information
- Title
- Writing in French "et non autrement,"
1529-1592
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Chenoweth, Kathryn
- Role
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Text
- creator
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- Extent
- vi, 335 p.
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- born digital
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- Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2010)
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Krause, Virginia
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Director
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Benmaïa, Réda
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Director
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Conley, Tom
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Reader
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. French
Studies
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Text
- sponsor
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the emerging cultural
question of vernacular writing during the mid-sixteenth century in
France. Combining cultural history, literary studies, and critical
theory, it explores how French writers across discourses and disciplines
redefined the significance of vernacular writing. The introduction
situates the sixteenth-century problematic of French writing
historically and establishes the dissertation's theoretical grounding in
the work of philosopher Jacques Derrida (Le Monolinguisme de l'autre, De
la grammatologie). It questions the narrative of the "rise" of the
vernacular that dominates understanding of this period, proposing
instead a dynamic model of "movements of appropriation" at work between
texts, writers, and languages.
The first chapter, focusing on Geoffroy Tory's Champ fleury,
looks at the role of print culture in the development of vernacular
writing. Examining the rhetoric of Tory's text, it argues that the
printer-typographer issues a "call" to future French writers by laying
down a discursive framework within which a desire for French is to be
satisfied through writing. The second chapter explores texts of
vernacular grammar and law appearing subsequent to Tory's call. Tracing
the emergence of an ideology of monolingualism in French writing, this
chapter focuses on the grammars of Louis Meigret (1550) and Ramus
(1572), as well as the Edict of Villers-Cotterêts issued by
François I in 1539. This chapter argues that the meta-linguistic
nature of these texts produces a new relationship to language in
writing. The third chapter explores the "affective mapping" produced in
poetic vernacular advocacy of this same period, concentrating on the
notion of the "langue maternelle" and the efforts of the Pléiade
group of poets. Chapter Four looks at how one of these poets, Joachim
Du Bellay, turns away from the patriotic stance of his famous Deffence,
et Illustration de la langue françoyse toward a more resistant form
of French writing his collection of sonnets Les Regrets. Chapter Five
considers how the singular language of Michel de Montaigne's Essais
marks an attempt to de-institutionalize French writing, in view of
another idiom more properly the writer's "own."
- Subject
- Topic
- vernacular
- Subject
- Topic
- Tory
- Subject
- Topic
- Villers-Cotterêts
- Subject
- Topic
- Du Bellay
- Subject
- Topic
- Montaigne
- Subject
- Topic
- Derrida
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- Topic
- Writing
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- Topic
- Native language
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/934333")
- Topic
- French language
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1094518")
- Topic
- Renaissance
- Subject (FAST)
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- Name
- Name Part
- Derrida, Jacques
- Subject (FAST)
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- Geographic
- France--Villers-Cotterêts
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- RPB
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- 20110926
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- eng
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- English
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.7301/Z0ZK5DW4
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