Sampling the Book

Renaissance Prologues and the French Conteurs

• Author(s): Deborah N. Losse,
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Pages: 136
• ISBN_10: 0838752446
  ISBN_13: 9780838752449
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Design / Book , Literary Criticism / European / French , Literary Criticism / Books & Reading ,

Description:... Metaphors used to illustrate the generating circumstances of the work to follow occupy a central place in the prefaces of Renaissance storytellers. Developing Paul Ricoeur's description of metaphor as a decoding tool, Losse describes how the conteurs use prefatory metaphors to set up a "good reading" of the text. There follows an extensive analysis of the prefatory functions as applied to the prologues of storytellers ranging from Marguerite de Navarre to Beroalde de Verville.