Session Details
Thursday, 29 December
478. The Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre
1:45–3:00 p.m., Chevy Chase, Washington Hilton
Program arranged by the Division on Sixteenth-Century French Literature
Presiding: Jean-Claude Carron, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
1. “Desperate Noblewomen: Wayward Wives in ‘Nouvelles’ 60 and 61 of the Heptaméron,” Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell Univ.
2. “Nécessité narrative et vraisemblance épidictique dans l’Heptaméron,” Eve-Alice E. Roustang-Stoller, Univ. of Southern California
3. “Interpreting Laughter and Comic Speech in the Heptaméron,” Antonia Szabari, Univ. of Southern California
4. “An Art of Occasions: Contingency, Narrative, and Friendship in the Heptaméron’s ‘Nouvelles,’” Jacob Vance, Johns Hopkins Univ.
For copies of abstracts, write to carron@ucla.edu.