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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 November 30, 2026

ISBN10: 1501599984
ISBN13: 9781501599989
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: Nov 30 2026
Pages: 356
Language: English

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

While scholars have explored the diachronic and lexical evolution of irony, comparatively little attention has been devoted to irony as a rhetorical practice in the French and Italian Renaissance, and to its ethical and epistemological dimensions. This book seeks to fill this gap by offering a new 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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