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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Heptameron Information
785 words, approx. 3 pages
 The Heptameron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549). It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred...
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 French Forum Heptameron.(Review)
01/01/2001: 546 words, approx. 2 pages Marguerite de Navarre. Heptameron. Ed. Renja Salminen. Textes Litterai res Francais 516. Geneva: Droz, 1999. xcii + 864 PP. For the most part, literary scholars have the benefit of working with modern critical editions of the major texts of their period or field... summary from source:
Renascence Appeals for pity in the Heptameron
04/01/2001: 5,978 words, approx. 20 pages MARGUEITE de Navarre's Heptameron, a major Renaissance collection of stories, is both derivative and distinctive. This unfinished book (it contains seventy-two stories rather than the projected one hundred), was published posthumously (1559), and was undoubtedly inspired in part by Boccaccio's Decameron (1353). Marguerite's work...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Marcel Tetel
15,735 words, approx. 53 pages
In the essay that follows, Tetel claims that the Heptameron's structure reflects a dramatization of ambiguity.
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Critical Essay by Jules Gelernt
14,029 words, approx. 47 pages
In the following essay, Gelernt describes the characters, issues and tone of the discussions following the stories of the Heptameron, and argues that Marguerite's conclusion considers wedlock “the best chance man has for happiness in this world.”
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Critical Essay by Timothy Hampton
11,622 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following essay, Hampton reads the Heptameron as a reflection of the shifting political and ideological ground of the Renaissance.
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