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Article: Clement Marot et les metamorphoses de l'auteur a l'aube de la Renaissance.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2006
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Clement Marot et les metamorphoses de l'auteur a l'aube de la Renaissance. By Florian Preisig. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 71) Geneva: Droz. 2004. 192 pp. SwF 49.10; 933.29. ISBN 2-600-00919-1.
The project of this book is to chart the changes in notions of authorship brought about by Marot in his works. The first chapter concentrates on his predecessors, the Rhetoriqueurs, moving on to Marot and his contemporaries, showing how print culture brought about a new awareness of the power of the author, and new possibilities for him to manifest himself in his text. Stated another way, one might suggest, Marot and his generation were particularly good at ...