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Beyond Ambiguity: Renaissance Irony as Textual Practice in Sixteenth-Century Italian and French Literature

Beyond Ambiguity: Renaissance Irony as Textual Practice in Sixteenth-Century Italian and French Literature

Casanova, Elena

Hardcover

Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Book 42

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 15, 2026

ISBN10: 1501599984
ISBN13: 9781501599989
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: Dec 15 2026
Pages: 360
Language: English

This study reframes irony as a rhetorical practice situated at the intersection of ethics and rhetoric in sixteenth-century French and Italian literature.

While foundational studies by Norman Knox and Dilwyn Knox trace the diachronic or lexical evolution of irony, they do not examine its practical function within literary texts or its ethical and epistemological dimensions. This book responds to this gap by offering a critical account of irony's rhetorical agency across a corpus including Erasmus, Ariosto, Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, and Montaigne. It argues that irony in the Renaissance is not merely a stylistic figure but a mode of inquiry that transforms classical and medieval traditions.

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