Novelty, Disinformation and Discrimination in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron (1559) and Sixteenth-Century French News Culture

IF 1.8 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Emily Butterworth
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This chapter explores the intersection between two different kinds of nouvelle: on the one hand, a piece of news; and on the other, a literary genre, the novella. Both senses were current in the early sixteenth century when Marguerite de Navarre, the sister of the French king François I, wrote the collection of novellas now known as the Heptameron. Developing its model, Boccaccio’s Decameron, the Heptameron includes an elaborate frame narrative in which the storytellers debate each story after they hear it. From these discussions, and the stories themselves, emerges a concern with the underlying principles of storytelling: truth, authority, witness and interpretation. These are concerns, this chapter argues, that were also current in sixteenth-century news culture, and in particular the short sensational news pamphlets that became popular during the religious wars of the second half of the century. The chapter examines the claims made in both the Heptameron and in news publications and argues that the Heptameron aspires to provide the analytical tools required to assess any account that claims to be truthful; an aspiration that anticipates later critiques of sensationalist and partisan news. It does this through a practice of discrimination, a careful parsing of a story and its underlying motivations.
玛格丽特·德·纳瓦拉的《七小时》(1559)中的新奇、虚假和歧视与16世纪法国新闻文化
本章探讨了两种不同类型的新小说之间的交集:一方面是一篇新闻;另一方面是一种文学体裁,中篇小说。这两种意思在16世纪早期都很流行,当时法国国王弗朗索瓦一世的妹妹玛格丽特·德·纳瓦拉写了一部中篇小说集,现在被称为《七天龙》。《七天龙》发展了薄伽丘的《十日谈》的模式,包括一个精心设计的框架叙事,在这个框架叙事中,讲故事的人在听完每个故事后进行辩论。从这些讨论和故事本身中,人们开始关注讲故事的基本原则:真相、权威、见证和解释。这一章认为,这些关注在16世纪的新闻文化中也很流行,尤其是在16世纪下半叶宗教战争期间流行的耸人听闻的新闻小册子。本章考察了《七蛟龙》和新闻出版物中提出的主张,并认为《七蛟龙》渴望提供必要的分析工具,以评估任何声称真实的账户;这种渴望预示着后来对耸人听闻和党派新闻的批评。它通过一种歧视的做法,对故事及其潜在动机的仔细分析来做到这一点。
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1952, Past & Present is widely acknowledged to be the liveliest and most stimulating historical journal in the English-speaking world. The journal offers: •A wide variety of scholarly and original articles on historical, social and cultural change in all parts of the world. •Four issues a year, each containing five or six major articles plus occasional debates and review essays. •Challenging work by young historians as well as seminal articles by internationally regarded scholars. •A range of articles that appeal to specialists and non-specialists, and communicate the results of the most recent historical research in a readable and lively form. •A forum for debate, encouraging productive controversy.
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