Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Navarre, Marguerite de | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Winn, Colette H. “Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549).” In French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book, edited by Eva Martin Sartori and Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman, pp. 313-23. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Provides a brief biography and survey of major themes of Marguerite's work, as well as a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

CRITICISM

Baker, M. J. “Didacticism and the Heptaméron: The Misinterpretation of the Tenth Tale as an Exemplum.French Review 45, No. 3 (Fall 1971): 84-90.

Challenges the claim that Marguerite de Navarre is simply a didactic author, and links her more strongly with the humanism of the Renaissance.

———. “The Role of the Moral Lesson in Heptaméron No. 30.” French Studies 31, No. 1 (1977): 18-25.

A supplement to her earlier essay, this article examines a story...

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