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This paper explores themes of gender inequality, love, culture and reason in Marguerite de Navarre's "The Heptameron" and the Poems of Gaspara Stampa.

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This paper discusses Marguerite de Navarre's 'The Heptameron' which is a collection of stories narrated by five female and male storytellers modeled upon Boccaccio's famous collection, 'The Decameron'. The writer discusses that one of the defining characteristics of this collection is the degree to which the author has ensured that both the voices of the narrators and the contents of their respective stories are distinct and identifiable. The writer points out that it must be acknowledged that this fact contributes to the complexity of the work as well as to the challenges involved in studying it.

From the Paper
"Marguerite de Navarre's The Heptameron is a collection of stories, narrated by five female and male storytellers, modeled upon Boccaccio's famous collection The Decameron. One of the defining characteristics of this collection is the degree to which the author has ensured that both the "voices" of the narrators, and the contents of their respective stories, are distinct and identifiable. It must be acknowledged that this fact contributes to the complexity of the work, as well as to the challenges involved in studying it."

Tags:literature, renaissance, women

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A brief discussion of how gender issues were displayed in Marguerite de Navarre's 1558 piece of literature, "Heptameron". It looks at how this work was reflective of the life women led at the time and how they were subservient to men.

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"In Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, women are portrayed as subservient to men. This book was written in 1558, and the role of women in society, and in the lives of men, was very different then than it is now (Lyons & McKinley, 1993). When the book first came out in print, women were just beginning to get educations and be valued somewhat in society for more than wives and mothers. Marguerite de Navarre was a very powerful woman, and she influenced many other women writers of the time. Women have come a long way, and whether one likes that or loathes it, works of literature such as Heptameron make it rather hard to ignore or overlook the changes that have occurred in the roles of the sexes from the time the book was printed until the present day."

Tags:gender, subservient

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"This study will provide a character critique on the woman Oisille and the man Hircan from Marguerite de Navarre's The Heptameron, emphasizing the feminist perspective of the work. The supposed author Marguerite is seen through her characters as a Christian humanist, a woman with decidedly feminist leanings, but with that feminism thoroughly awash with much more humor than rhetoric. The tales presented are bawdy and full of acceptance of the human condition at its best and worst, but there is always the sense that the world of human beings is a part of the Christian reality. Marguerite was active throughout her life in efforts to reform and liberalize the church.


It would not be outrageous to see Oisille as something of a heroine and a personification of the author's ideal woman, as Chilton describes her in the Introduction: "It is Oisille who is..."

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The paper relates that there are large differences as well as strong similarities between Boccaccio's "Decameron" and the "Heptameron" of Marguerite of Navarre. The paper notes that the works are separated by about two hundred years in time, and also by the difference between the French culture of Marguerite and the Italian culture of Boccaccio. Also, the paper relates that Boccaccio wrote in the time before the Protestant Reformation, and his work is clearly of a strong Catholic bent, despite his constant criticism and poking of fun at clerics and church bureaucrats.

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"The are large differences as well as strong similarities between Boccaccio's "Decameron" and the "Heptameron" of Marguerite of Navarre. The works are separated by about two hundred years in time, and also by the difference between the French culture of Marguerite and the Italian culture of Boccaccio. Also, Boccaccio wrote in the time before the Protestant Reformation, and his work is clearly of a strong Catholic bent, despite his constant criticism and poking of fun at clerics and church bureaucrats. Marguerite, on the other hand, wrote during the time of the Reformation and put strong Protestant leanings in her work, which caused..."

Tags:boccaccio, heptameron, renaissance

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The paper discusses the differences and similarities between Boccaccio's "Decameron" and Marguerite of Navarre's "Heptameron". The paper focuses on the theme of "dissimulation" in both works, that is the deliberate withholding of information in order to deceive for a specific purpose. The paper looks at two stories from both works in order to highlight this theme and concludes that both works contain a mixture of fact and fiction, but both use this mixture with the higher goal of showing human hypocrisy and that deceit and dissimulation often rebound against the errant.

From the Paper
"The are large differences as well as strong similarities between Boccaccio's Decameron and the Heptameron of Marguerite of Navarre. The works are separated by about two hundred years in time, and also by the difference between the French culture of Marguerite and the Italian culture of Boccaccio. Also, Boccaccio wrote in the time before the Protestant Reformation, and his work is clearly of a strong Catholic bent, despite his constant criticism and poking of fun at clerics and church bureaucrats. Marguerite, on the other hand, wrote during the time of the Reformation and put strong Protestant leanings in her work, which caused some controversy at the time and put her into a certain amount of danger, according to the introduction in the anthology. Even so, the cynicism and critiques that both writers express toward the established churches of their day show strong similarities and suggest that clerical corruption and hypocrisy is a ripe topic of satire in nearly any century."

Tags:human, hypocrisy, deceit, satire, Church, clerics

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Throughout history, women have been considered inferior to men on a physical and intellectual level. They are often objectified and portrayed as the weaker sex in traditional literature. This paper shows how Sappho, Marie de France, Marguerite de Navarre, and Jane Austen all challenged the stereotypes of women in their writing. They were innovative authors who commented on the flaws in popular societal beliefs and challenged their readers to view things differently. The paper shows how these authors also built on many literary traditions and styles, while combining them with their own innovations; these have now become traditions for today's authors.

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"Sappho illustrates the power of love by reminding readers of Helen's story and then continues by describing what is most important to her. She writes "[All of which] has now reminded me of Anaktoria, who is not here. Her lovely walk and the bright sparkle of her face, I would rather look upon than, all the Lydian chariots and full-armed infantry." Sappho's description of her friend Anaktoria is a direct example of what she values most. Considering friendship and love more virtuous than war was not a belief widely held in society at that time, and Sappho takes this risk while still building on the traditions of her time."

Tags:Wolf, and, the, Lamb, Novel, VII, Northanger, Abbey

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The contexts of these readings are in Medieval literature, and love is briefly described from four different perspectives, (spiritual, physical, poetic, and ideal.)

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The paper relates that De Beers' value chain begins with its Central Selling Organization or the CSO. The paper explains that while De Beers maintains some interest in mining activities its first real value center begins with the grading process of diamonds within the framework of its CSO operations where diamonds are assigned their market values (Cadieux, 2005, p.4). The paper reveals that for De Beers, the value chain can be described as being a sequence of primary business activities that add utility as well as value to its products or services (Value, 1996), and therefore, any organization can be subdivided into the components that add value to each of its processes comprising the production and delivery of its product or service. The paper relates that the reasons for examining an organization such as De Beers in this respect are many, but put briefly, being aware of a firm's value chain and its components tends to offer the greatest opportunity for De Beers to identify its sources of sustainable competitive advantage (Value, 1996, para.2).

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"De Beers' value chain begins with its Central Selling Organization or the CSO. While De Beers maintains some interest in mining activities its first real value center begins with the grading process of diamonds within the framework of its CSO operations where diamonds are assigned their market values (Cadieux, 2005, p.4). For De Beers, the value chain can be described as being a sequence of primary business activities that add utility as well as value to its products or services (Value, 1996). Therefore, any organization can be subdivided into the components that add..."

Tags:de, beers, analysis

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On 13 September 1923, General Miguel Primo de Rivera launched a successful and bloodless coup d'etat, beginning seven years of dictatorship in Spain. Primo de Rivera was a maladroit politician filled with the fervor of Spanish patriotism thought sufficient to navigate his dictatorship through the murky waters of politics. This paper will argue that the regime was more of a developmental dictatorship than one based in the usual fundamentals of autocracy. It concerns itself instead with describing the political realities in which the Primo de Rivera dictatorship was based, before moving on to discuss the objectives and achievements of the regime. The paper concludes by suggesting ways in which the dictatorship may have influenced the cataclysmic developments that drew the nation into Civil War less than a decade after the collapse of the Primo de Rivera regime.

Tags:miguel, primo, de, rivera