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Article: The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance.
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- College Literature
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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Lawrence Kritzman's latest work, The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance, seeks to make a difference in the way we read sixteenth-century French literature. The result is impressive.
The essays, which survey some of the major writers of French Renaissance Literature--Pernette du Guillet, Marguerite de Navarre, Marot, Ronsard, Sceve, Rabelais and Montaigne--reflect the author's interest in the literary criticism that developed "in the wake of the revolution in French critical theory" (1). Kritzman, whose critical approach is psychoanalytical, sets as one of his main goals the "attempt to contextualize a strategy of reading that focuses ...