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• Les livres de Montaigne
• Introduction
• La bibliothèque
• Le lecteur / l'écrivain
• Le critique
• Le moi
• Le livre de Montaigne
• Une pratique de lecture
• Un livre de bonne foi
• Le latiniste
• L'ordre fortuit
• S'essayer
• Se corriger
• Le dialogue
• L'historien
• Le rêve de Rome
• Vies parallèles
• Trois bonnes femmes
• Trois grands hommes
• Homère
• Alexandre
• Épaminondas
• Quatre grands poètes
• Virgile
• Catulle
• Horace
• Ovide
• Les prosateurs
• Les philosophes
• Montaigne et Socrate
• Le philosophe
• Le physionomiste
• Ressemblances / dissemblances
• La vertu
• La religion
• La sagesse
• La nature
• La mort.

"Cette étude s'efforce de cerner la pratique de lecture de Montaigne et d'expliquer comment elle fournit la matière première de son propre livre. Lecteur exceptionnel, Montaigne lit les Anciens en amateur d'hommes, de pensées et de faits divers. Le livre pour lui est un nouveau monde, qu'il découvre en explorateur curieux. Notre lecture de ses lectures comprend la présentation de l'histoire de la bibliothèque de Montaigne, l'analyse de son moi de lecteur et de son dialogue permanent avec ses auteurs, l'esquisse de l'influence de Plutarque et de Socrate, figure emblématique de l'essayiste au travail."--P. [4] of cover.

• Introduction
• 1. Discourses of misogyny
• 2. Irony and the sexual other
• 3. Anonymity and the poetics of regendering
• 4. The women in Montaigne's life
• 5. Sexual marginality
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical - Gray reveals the extent to which these marginalized texts reflect literary concerns rather than social reality. He then moves from a close analysis of the rhetorical factor in the Querelle des femmes to consider ways in which writing, as a textual phenomenon, inscribes its own, sometimes ambiguous, meaning. Gray offers richly detailed readings of writing by Rabelais, Jean Flore, Montaigne, Louise Labe, Pernette du Guillet and Marie de Gournay among others, challenging the inherent anachronism of those forms of criticism that fail to take account of the rhetorical and cultural conditions of the period.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• 1. Discourses of misogyny. The rule of rhetoric. The Querelle des femmes: rhetoric or reality? Antifeminism and marriage in Rabelais's Tuers Livre
• 2. Irony and the sexual other. Jeanne Flore and erotic desire: feminism or male fantasy? Reading and writing in the tenth story of the Hepatameron
• 3. Anonymity and the poetics of regendering. The "I" as another. Pernette du Gullet's Platonism. Louise Labe's Petrarchism
• 4. The women in Montaigne's life. Montaigne's women. Marie de Gournay's Montaigne
• 5. Sexual marginality. Reading homosexuality. Cross-dressing. The anadrogyne myth. Brantome, medical discourse, and the makings of pornography.

In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical - Gray reveals the extent to which these marginalized texts reflect literary concerns rather than social reality. He then moves from a close analysis of the rhetorical factor in the Querelle des femmes to consider ways in which writing, as a textual phenomenon, inscribes its own, sometimes ambiguous, meaning. Gray offers richly detailed readings of writing by Rabelais, Jean Flore, Montaigne, Louise Labe, Pernette du Guillet and Marie de Gournay among others, challenging the inherent anachronism of those forms of criticism that fail to take account of the rhetorical and cultural conditions of the period.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction
• 1. Discourses of misogyny
• 2. Irony and the sexual other
• 3. Anonymity and the poetics of regendering
• 4. The women in Montaigne's life
• 5. Sexual marginality
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical - Gray reveals the extent to which these marginalized texts reflect literary concerns rather than social reality. He then moves from a close analysis of the rhetorical factor in the Querelle des femmes to consider ways in which writing, as a textual phenomenon, inscribes its own, sometimes ambiguous, meaning. Gray offers richly detailed readings of writing by Rabelais, Jean Flore, Montaigne, Louise Labe, Pernette du Guillet and Marie de Gournay among others, challenging the inherent anachronism of those forms of criticism that fail to take account of the rhetorical and cultural conditions of the period.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Editions and translations / Floyd Gray
• Recommended readings for students and instructors / Floyd Gray and Todd W. Reeser
• Aids to teaching / Todd W. Reeser
• Introduction / Floyd Gray and Todd W. Reeser
• Rabelais and hybridity / François Rigolot
• The prologues : Rabelais on reading and writing / Richard Regosin
• Intertextuality : the Bible / Edwin M. Duval
• Panurge, parody and perplexity : from satyr play to satire / Bernd Renner
• Rabelais and language : change, decay, transition / John O'Brien
• Teaching Rabelais's language : a literary approach / Kirsten A. Fudeman
• Teaching Rabelais in English translation / Valerie Worth-Stylianou
• The prologue of Gargantua, or, A lesson in scandal management / Jan Miernowski
• Teaching Rabelais's backside / Jeff Persels
• Locating and teaching politics in Rabelais / Timothy Hampton
• Writing reform : evangelical reform and religious controversy in Rabelais's work / Deborah N. Losse
• On gargantuan individualism / Michael Randall
• Utopian dimensions of Pantagruel / Scott D. Juall
• Rabelais and cartography / Tom Conley
• The world in Pantagruel's mouth : alimentary aesthetics and culinary consciousness / Timothy J. Tomasik
• Rabelais's giants / Walter Stephens
• Rabelais and feminism / Elisabeth Hodges
• Queer Rabelais? / Carla Freccero
• Masculinity and the question of gender / Lawrence D. Kritzman
• On becoming human : Gargantua, chapter 13 / Virginia Krause
• The predicament of peace in Gargantua / Marcus Keller
• Teaching Gargantua's letter to Pantagruel / Cynthia Skenazi
• Deciphering the sibyl : The third book, chapters 16-18 / Floyd Gray
• Modes of transit : domestication and estrangement in The fourth book / Andrea Frisch
• Thawing the frozen words : the importance of aural and visual culture in teaching Rabelais / Elizabeth Chesney Zegura
• And now for something completely different? : Approaching Gargantua through Monty Python / Gary Ferguson
• Rare books and web pages : using internet resources to teach Rabelais / Karen James and Mary McKinley
• Reading the Rabelaisian storm : an exercise in student motivation / John Parkin
• Teaching through student performance : Rabelais and the Rassias method / David LaGuardia
• Reconstructing early modern folk laughter through creative writing / James M. Palmer
• An allegorical framework for reading Gargantua in a great-books class / Jerry Root
• Comic realism : teaching Gargantua and Pantagruel in comparative contexts / Carl Fisher
• The truth is out there : Rabelais in a survey course on monsters / Kathleen Long.

The works of Francois Rabelais embody the Renaissance spirit of discovery and are crucial to the development of early modern prose and to the birth of the novel. This volume's essays present strategies for the classroom, discussing the classical and biblical allusions; the context of humanism and evangelical reform; various themes; both feminism and masculinity as vexing subjects; Rabelais's erudition; and the challenges of teaching his inventive language, his ambiguity, and his scatology.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)