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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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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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"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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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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"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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