Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction IX
5. I. Generic Transformations and Graphic Transgressions
6. 1. Inmost Cravings: The Logic of Desire in the Heptameron 3
7. 2. Gender, Essence, and the Feminine (Heptameron 43) 25
8. 3. The Rhetoric of Lyricism in the Heptameron 41
9. 4. “La Malice des hommes” : “L’Histoire des satyres” and the Heptameron 53
10. 5. The Graphics of Dissimulation: Between Heptameron 10 and l’histoire tragique 65
11. II. Narrative Systems and Structures
12. 6. Modular Narrative and the Crisis of Interpretation 85
13. 7. “Voyla, mes dames ...” : Inscribed Women Listeners and Readers in the Heptameron 104
14. 8. Naked Narrator: Heptameron 62 123
15. 9. Telling Secrets: Sacramental Confession and Narrative Authority in the Heptameron 146
16. 10. The Voice of the Narrators in Marguerite de Navarre’s Tales 172
17. 11. Rules of the Game 188
18. III. Character and Community
19. 12. Some Ways of Structuring Character in the Heptameron 203
20. 13. The Heptameron and the “Magdalen Controversy”: Dialogue and Humanist Hermeneutics 218
21. 14. Writing the Body: Androgynous Strategies in the Heptameron 232
22. 15. “Et puis, quelles nouvelles?”: The Project of Marguerite’s Unfinished Decameron 241
23. Critical Tales: An Epilogue
24. Selected Bibliography 263
25. Contributors 287
26. Index 291
27. Backmatter 297