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 that is animated by moral didacticism.

Bernard, John D. “Sexual oppression and social justice in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron.” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 19, No. 2 (Fall 1989): 251-81.

Reads the Heptameron as a meditation on the “social regulation of eros.”

Bernard, Robert W. “Platonism—Myth or Reality in the Heptaméron?” Sixteenth Century Journal 5, No. 1 (April 1974): 3-14.

Considers the role of Platonic love in the stories of the Heptameron.

Cottrell, Robert D. The Grammar of Silence: A Reading of Marguerite de Navarre's Poetry. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1986, 338 p.

Studies Marguerite de Navarre's poetry as mystical reflections on the divine.

Davis, Betty J. Storytellers in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron. Lexington, Ky.: French Forum, 1978. 203 p.

A detailed study of the characters of the Heptameron and the relationships between them.

Ferguson, Gary. Mirroring Belief: Marguerite de Navarre's Devotional Poetry. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992, 253 p.

Discusses the theological views manifested in Marguerite de Navarre's poetry.

Freccero, Carla. “Rape's Disfiguring Figures: Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron, Day 1:10.” In Rape and Representation, edited by Lynn A. Higgins and Brenda R. Silver, pp. 227-47. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Discusses the continuities between rape and courtly love, politicized and dramatized in the Heptameron.

Kinney, Arthur F. “Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron des Nouvelles: The Poetics of Metaphysics and the Fiction of L'inquiétisme.” In Continental Humanist Poetics: Studies in Erasmus, Castiglione, Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais and Cervantes, pp. 135-80. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.

Examines Marguerite's literary humanism in a biographical context.

Lloyd-Jones, Kenneth. “Voicy Nouvelle Joye … Evangelical Humanism in the Poetry of Marguerite de Navarre.” Romance Languages Annual 5 (1993): 63-8.

Contests the critical dismissal of Marguerite de Navarre's poetry in comparison with the Heptameron.

Lyons, John D. “The Heptaméron and the Foundation of Critical Narrative.” Yale French Studies 70 (1986): 150-63.

Reads the Heptameron as a transitional text that prefigures the modern secular novel.

Lyons, John D. and Mary B. McKinley, eds. Critical Tales: New Studies of the Heptameron and Early Modern Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, 297 p.

A collection of essays focusing on the issues of genre, narrative structure, and social organization in the Heptameron.

Nash, Jerry C. “Heptaméron 71 and Its Intertextuality: The Fabliau Art of Narrative Distance.” French Forum 19, No. 1 (1994): 5-16.

Traces Marguerite de Navarre's rewriting of popular narratives.

Richards, Sylvie L. F. “Fictional Truth and the Prologue of the Heptaméron.” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 48, No. 1 (1994): 61-76.

Examines the storytellers' claims of the veracity of their narratives.

Rigolot, Francois. “Magdalen's Skull: Allegory and iconography in Heptaméron 32.” Renaissance Quarterly 47, No. 1 (Spring 1994): 57-73.

Discusses the imagery of penitence in one of the Heptameron tales.

Sommers, Paula. “Feminine Authority in the Heptaméron: A Reading of Oysille.” Modern Language Studies 13, No. 2 (Spring 1983): 52-9.

Studies a dominant female character in the Heptameron, whose age and piety contribute to her authority.