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 The Modern Language Review
Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron.(Review)
04/01/2001: 418 words, approx. 1 pages Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron. Ed. by RENJA SALMINEN. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 516). Geneve: Droz. 1999. xcii + 864 pp. 53.20 SwF. Written by the Queen Marguerite of Navarre, the Heptameron has been a bestseller since its creation in the first half of the...
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 Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
APPEALS FOR PITY IN THE HEPTAMERON.(Marguerite de Navarre)
03/22/2001: 6,844 words, approx. 23 pages MARGUERITE 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...



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Critical Essay by Mary B. McKinley
11,423 words, approx. 38 pages
 In the essay that follows, McKinley elaborates the connection between the institutional requirement of women's speech in confession and the increasing authority of that speech on the part of individual women in the Renaissance.
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Critical Essay by Louis E. Auld
8,064 words, approx. 27 pages
 In the following essay, Auld claims that the significance of Marguerite de Navarre's plays lies in part with her innovative dramatization of personal beliefs, and her use of music to lend emotional force to the abstract religious ideas she wishes to convey.
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Critical Essay by Patricia Francis Cholakian
6,490 words, approx. 22 pages
 In the essay that follows, Cholakian examines the complexity of establishing female desire in three of Marguerite's stories that turn on a rape or a seduction.


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