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"The Heptameron" by Marguerite De Navarre, 1994.
A critique of the female and male characters Oisille and Hircan, emphasizing the author's feminism, humanism, Christianity and humor.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, $ 79.95
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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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Marguerite de Navarre's "The Heptameron" and the Poems of Gaspara Stampa., 2002.
This paper discusses the intertwined discourses in Marguerite de Navarre's "The Heptameron" and the poems of Gaspara Stampa.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 71.95
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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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Love: Erasmus, de Navarre, Petrarch and Shakespeare., 2002.
An analysis of the meaning of "Love" based on four different literary expressions of love
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 26.95
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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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Narrators in 'The Heptameron', 2005.
This paper studies the interaction of narrators in 'The Heptameron' by Marguerite de Navarre.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 2 sources, $ 89.95
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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.
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"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."
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Paul Valery's "Introduction de la Methode de Leonard de Vinci", 2002.
This paper compares a quote taken from Paul Valery's "Introduction de la Methode de Leonard de Vinci" and to Salman Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories".
1,090 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper reviews the specific pieces by Valery and Rushdie and other pertinent supportive material. The paper concludes that Valery was a man of words who often felt that those who used them didn't know their power. The author feels that Valery knew the power of words but often felt the "gift" to write was not empowering.
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"His quote, "Beauty is a way of death. The novelty, the intensity, the strangeness, in a word, all the values of shock supplant it", can be likened to the hunter who loves the hunt more than the eventual catch. So it is with words for Valery. It is the process, the thinking, the effort that fascinates him?not the work itself. Perhaps that is because he left the world of literature for the analytical and precise world of science."
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"Heptameron", 2002.
The portrayal of women in Marguerite de Navarre's "Heptameron".
687 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 24.95
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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."
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Traditions and Innovations in Female Writing, 2003.
Analysis of Sappho, Marie de France, Marguerite de Navarre, and Jane Austen in their respective writing traditions.
1,371 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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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."
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Dissimulation in "Decameron" and "Heptameron", 2008.
An analysis of the theme of dissimulation in Boccaccio's "Decameron" and the "Heptameron" of Marguerite of Navarre.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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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.
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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 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."
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Marguerite Duras' Novel "the Lover", 2002.
An examination of the psychoanalytic concepts as applied to the novel's narrator.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, $ 79.95
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Examines psychoanalytic concepts applied to novel's narrator. Plot of novel & relationships in the story. Mother-daughter relationship. Bipolar mother. Daughter's defense mechanisims; self-awareness of her sexual power. Narrative perspective. Psychological diagosis. Internal psychology and external sociology. Freudian elements. Theories of Anna Freud, romm-Reichmann. Gestalt therapy.
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"This research examines psychoanalytic concepts that are relevant to Marguerite Duras's novel The Lover. The research will explore the character of the narrator from the standpoint of a psychological diagnosis, first setting forth the narrative context in which the character's psychological attributes emerge and then discussing the narrative function of the character as well as her behavior in relationships that are explored in the novel.
Set in colonial Indochina in the 1920s and 1930s, The Lover is structured as a memoir of a French girl's adolescence marked chiefly by family pathology and a sexual initiation that has various attributes of socially forbidden love. The focus of the relationships in the story is on the declining mental condition of the narrator's mother and the 15-year-old narrator's..."
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"The Romance of the Rose" by Guillaume De Lorris and Jean De Meun, 1993.
A look at the duality of men's attitudes toward women (worship vs. contempt) in the novel about the Middle Ages.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"This study will analyze the duality of men's attitudes toward women as portrayed by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun in The Romance of the Rose. The study will consider the reasons that men worshipped women while at the same time having contempt for them, and will explore how this duality of attitude and practice helped shape the code of chivalry which men lived by during the Middle Ages.
In the Introduction to the book, we read that the story is told rather straightforwardly: "A Lover wishes to win his Lady (the Rose); her responsiveness (Fair Welcome) encourages him; her sense of modesty (Shame) fends him off; the dominance she exercises upon him (Danger --- a French form of the Latin word dominarium meaning 'domination') blocks his advance. Modern readers, accustomed to similar Freudian abstractions, can hardly..."
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Writings by Cabeza de Vaca, 2005.
Examines how Cabeza de Vaca?s narrative, "The Relation of Ivar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca", provides rare glimpses of Indian culture and way of life that no longer exist today.
1,417 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper focuses on how Ivar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's "The Relation of Ivar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca" has historical significance by providing examples from the text and citing outside sources. This paper shows how important de Vaca?s book is as he gives his account of the lives of the Indian tribes in the 1500s. Since these Indians had an oral tradition instead of a written one, information about these tribes, and especially the role of women within these tribes, would not exist today without de Vaca?s book.
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"Unlike many other cultures in that time, women had a voice and held some power in their society, making them more equal in power with men than in other cultures. Many traders were women as ?women of several native groups?performed roles as traders, guides, and peacemakers? (Wade 339). Essentially, de Vaca was a man doing women?s work, but it showed him moving from one role to another. This knowledge is important because it shows the roles that the women and men had in their culture and ?the flexibility of the native social structure of groups classified as gathering and hunting societies? (Wade 339)."
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'Don Quijote de la Mancha', 2006.
A review of 'Don Quijote de la Mancha' by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
1,783 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 0 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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This paper reviews the life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, born 1547 in Alcala de Henares, Spain and how he used his experiences to write the book 'Don Quijote de la Mancha'. According to the paper, while the old fashioned ideals of chivalry, romance and aristocratic justice were steadily becoming hackneyed in burgeoning renaissance Spain, Cervantes took out his pen and wrote the relished story of 'Don Quixotes', the vivacious man from La Mancha whose imagination was as wild as the embraced socio-cultural history of the nation.
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"This lackluster punctuation of daily duty was of no surprise to Cervantes, whose own personal histories were none too different. After the publication of his first literary work, "Serenisima Reina En Quien Se Halla," dedicated to the birth of Phillip II's second daughter, Cervantes spent his young years under the tutelage of Diego de Urbina aboard the royal Marquesa. In 1571, Cervantes was ill with malaria when his ship was attacked, and imbued with the same raptured infatuation for antiquarian ideals of nobility, he stood valiantly strong with his shipmates. "Cervantes is stricken with malaria but, in spite of high fevers, fights heroically from the bow of the ship, in the 'greatest moment that past centuries have seen and which those to come have no hope of seeing." At the battle of Lepanto, the event was less colorful; he was an injured, low-ranking shipman with little hope for career advancement and the ideals of a hero less applicable in the reality of a fighter struggling for one side in a bloody role for national cultural definition."
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Simone de Beauvoir, 2002.
Discusses the life and philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir with special emphasis on de Beauvoir's relations to existentialism.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This essay considers the life and philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir. A brief overview of de Beauvoir's life is offered here, followed by a critical consideration of de Beauvoir's relations to existentialism.
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"Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida", 2002.
A review of "Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida" by Jerald T. Milanich and Charles Hudson.
924 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper examines how "Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida" by Jerald T. Milanich and Charles Hudson which chronicles the expedition of the titular Spanish explorer through which what was to de Soto?s eyes a New World and to the Native inhabitants a homeland. It analyzes how the New World that promised to enrich de Soto and his nation of Spain ultimately proved the cause of his demise and how de Soto?s expedition, more importantly, caused the demise of the Native way of life of those whom de Soto engaged in combat and in contact with. It looks at how the authors Milanich and Hudson attempt to present a more three-dimensional, non-European counter and compliment to de Soto?s work through the use of archaeological evidence.
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"Milanich and Hudson do not take issue with the characterization of de Soto as a man bent on personal enrichment as well conquest, though they do view his reportage of his encounters with interest as well as trepidation. But their new archeological information regarding Native life provides the ?other side? that has so long been missing from accounts of de Soto?s expedition. Providing this ?other side? is particularly important, given that de Soto?s relationship with the Native Americans were more often than not, adversarial. Relying solely upon de Soto?s accounts as an objective source is not unlike relying solely upon the winning side?s words in evaluating a war."
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Rebecca and Mrs. de Winter, 2006.
This paper analyzes the conflicted relationship between Rebecca and Mrs. de Winter in Daphne Du Maurier's classic 1938 novel, "Rebecca."
1,352 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses the plot of the novel which revolves around the second Mrs. de Winter who becomes obsessed with tales of Rebecca, the first Mrs. de Winter, who was mysteriously murdered. The writer contends and explains why Mrs. de Winter's longing to be like Rebecca leads to a journey of self-discovery which also helps her unearth the mysterious past of her husband Maxim and his first wife. The paper discusses the author's use of symbolism to foreshadow Mrs. de Winter's connection with Rebecca. This paper delves into the second wife's feelings of inadequacy when trying to measure up to the image of her husband's first wife. The writer of this paper details the immense power Rebecca has over Mrs. de Winter while also delving into the dysfunctional relationship between Mrs. de Winter and her husband.
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"Rebecca is thus an elusive entity for the girl who longs to become more like her and thus develops her own images and version of her. She follows these images, copying them in her desire to be deserving of the title of Mrs. De winter. Her marriage with Maxim was not exactly successful because the girl was pre-occupied with her middle-class upbringing and wanted to somehow trade that for a more adult, grown-up attitude. She found herself inexperienced in sexual matters which left her often feeling empty and unfulfilled after her sexual encounters with Maxim. Mrs. De Winter blamed this on her middle-class ness, something that she had come to resent deeply. She felt that only a woman like Rebecca could have a fulfilling marriage and a satisfying sexual life with her husband since she was experienced in the art of winning and pleasing people."
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