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From the 14th until the 19th century the last novella of Boccaccio's Decameron, also known as the Griselda story, has been translated and adapted countless times in many European languages. This story's success can be explained by considering it a myth and analysing how this myth engages with contemporary discourses, such as the definition of the ideal wife, the querelle des femmes, the socio-political consequences of social exogamy, and tyranny.

Literature & literary studies --- Early Modern Literature. --- Griselda. --- Literary Myth. --- Querelle des femmes.

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Literature: authors --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Europe --- Frauenliteratur. --- Querelle des femmes. --- Geschichte 1600-1800. --- Westeuropa.

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"La Guerre comique conclut la querelle de L’École des femmes en février 1664. Dans cette apologie de la pièce de Molière, Apollon, qui se prononce en sa faveur, assiste à cinq disputes. Y sont résumés les griefs portés contre L’École des femmes pendant un an, allégorisés par M. de la Rancune, et les arguments pour la défendre, énoncés essentiellement par Philinte. La Croix en rajoute un : Molière n’a pas plagié, mais fait bon usage de ses sources, comme les auteurs de tragédies le font avec les pièces des Anciens. Surtout, ses citations constantes rendent un hommage spirituel à la pièce de Molière ; en la reprenant, parfois de façon ludique (les sévères Maximes d’Arnolphe sont renversées en sentences libertines), Philippe de La Croix montre que L’École des femmes est rapidement devenue un classique dans les cercles littéraires parisiens." "Il n’y a pas moyen de se méprendre à l’intention d’un sieur de la Croix, auteur de La Guerre comique, ou la Défense de l’École des femmes. Cet ouvrage, où la prose et les vers, la narration et le dialogue sont mêlés, est véritablement une apologie ; il a bien aussi la forme d’une dispute où L’École des femmes est alternativement louée et critiquée ; mais Apollon, pris pour juge du différend, prononce un arrêt en faveur de la pièce."

French drama (Comedy) --- Literary quarrels --- Dialogues, French. --- Comédie française --- Querelles littéraires --- Querelle des Femmes. --- Dialogues français --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Molière, --- École des femmes (Molière) --- Play within a play. --- Théâtre dans le théâtre

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This book offers the first critical translation into French of the two treatises composed by Teresa de Cartagena in the late 15th century, the Grove of the Infirm and the Wonder at the Works of God. They are the oldest surviving texts written by a female hand in the Castilian vernacular. Their content is strikingly original: the first one is a consolatory treatise in which the author, having become deaf, values illness and disability; the second one is a work of literary polemic in which she defends her authorship as a woman. Famous and well-studied since the 1970s in the Spanish and English-speaking scholarship, they remain little known in the French-speaking world. They come with an introduction that summarizes the lavish bibliography and provides some additional elements of context coming from the examination of the only surviving manuscript.

Literature (General) --- Thérèse de Carthagène --- XVe siècle --- traité consolatoire --- Querelle des femmes --- auteurité féminine --- surdité --- Teresa de Cartagena --- 15th century --- consolatory treatise --- The woman question --- woman authorship --- deafness --- siglo XV --- tratado consolatorio --- Querella de las mujeres --- autoría femenina --- sordera --- Literary studies: general

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A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interrogatives to be answered but problems to be solved. Alexis de Tocqueville, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Adolf Hitler were among the many who put their pens to the task. The Age of Questions asks how the question form arose, what trajectory it followed, and why it provoked such feverish excitement for over a century. Was there a family resemblance between questions? Have they disappeared, or are they on the rise again in our time?In this pioneering book, Holly Case undertakes a stunningly original analysis, presenting, chapter by chapter, seven distinct arguments and frameworks for understanding the age. She considers whether it was marked by a progressive quest for emancipation (of women, slaves, Jews, laborers, and others); a steady, inexorable march toward genocide and the "Final Solution"; or a movement toward federation and the dissolution of boundaries. Or was it simply a farce, a false frenzy dreamed up by publicists eager to sell subscriptions? As the arguments clash, patterns emerge and sharpen until the age reveals its full and peculiar nature.Turning convention on its head with meticulous and astonishingly broad scholarship, The Age of Questions illuminates how patterns of thinking move history.

Civilization, Modern --- History, Modern --- Nationalism --- Nationalism. --- Social change --- European influences. --- History --- Adolf Hitler. --- American question. --- Belgian question. --- Eastern question. --- Europe. --- European question. --- Final Solution. --- Hungary. --- Jewish question. --- Palladium. --- Polish question. --- Ukrainian question. --- boundaries. --- bullion question. --- catechisms. --- catharsis. --- conservatives. --- contradictions. --- debating societies. --- deed. --- emancipation. --- farce argument. --- farce. --- federation. --- federative argument. --- final solutions. --- force argument. --- genocide. --- international public sphere. --- literature. --- national argument. --- nationality question. --- philosophy. --- popular pedagogy. --- progressive argument. --- querelle des femmes. --- querism. --- question des femmes. --- questions. --- satire. --- scholastic question. --- science. --- slavery question. --- social question. --- suspension-bridge argument. --- temporal argument. --- time. --- timelessness. --- timeliness. --- universal war. --- woman question. --- x question.