Session Details

Friday, 29 December

434. Poetry and Devotion in Renaissance France: From the “Grands Rhétoriqueurs” to Jean de La Ceppède

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Adams, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Sixteenth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Lance K. Donaldson-Evans, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1. “Le badin gracieux ‘balladin’: Sur le dernier poème attribué à Clément Marot,” Corinne Noirot-Maguire, Goucher Coll.

2. “Rules for Writing: Worldliness and Devotional Poetry at the Priory of Poissy,” Gary Ferguson, Univ. of Delaware, Newark

3. “From ‘Le printemps’ to ‘Les tragiques’: Trauma, Self-Narrative, and the Metamorphosis of Poetic Identity in Agrippa d’Aubigné,” Zahi A. Zalloua, Whitman Coll.

4. “‘Les sonnets franc-comtois’: Devotional Poetry as a ‘Miroir du Prince,’” Christine M. Probes, Univ. of South Florida

For copies of abstracts, write to ldevans@sas.upenn.edu.

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