Anne de France, or Anne de Beaujeu by marriage, was present in history books long before she was the subject of literary studies. Regent of France's kingdom during her brother's, Charles the VIII's, minority (1484--1491), we know her mostly for successfully having measured herself up to her political opponents by calling the Etats Generaux and ruling the kingdom with calculating tactfulness. However, she also leaves a literary legacy, her Enseignements, which she writes for her only daughter Susanne in 1504 or 1505, and which are published in 1521 in Lyon by the editor and bookseller Le Prince. / Having not enjoyed great literary fortune, this text contains many interesting attributes. To this effect, a rhetoric reading of the Enseignements can and must be done. Even though the text recycles many of the period's conventions, a study of the argumentative devices, most notably through the interaction of the exempla and the counter-exempla , generates a certain virtue ethic that is especially noticeable through the analysis of the identity defining instance, "je".
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.79755 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Cordeiro, Debby |
| Contributors | Desrosiers-Bonin, Diane (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Département de langue et littérature françaises.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001982926, proquestno: AAIMQ88629, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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