Pernette du Guillet| A woman poet in the male poetic tradition
ii Chapter I. THE BIOGRAPHY OF PERNETTE DU GUILLET; EDITIONS OF THE RYMES 1 Biography of Pernette du Guillet 1 Editions of the Rymes 7 II. THE POETIC TRADITION AND POETRY OF HER TIME 10 Life in Renaissance Lyons: Geographical Situation and Cultural Life 10 The Medieval Tradition: Courtly Love and Rhetorical Tendencies 13 Petrarchism: The Dominant Poetic Tradition of the French Renaissance 24 Platonism . „ 32 The Ecole lyonnaise 38 III. PERNETTE DU GUILLET AT VARIANCE WITH POETIC TRADITION 42 Variations on the Courtly Love Ideal 44 Variations on the Grande Rhetorique and the Marotiques 50 Variations on Petrarchism 52 Variations on Neoplatonism 59 IV. PERNETTE DU GUILLET'S NARRATIVE POINT OF VIEW 70 Narrative Voice 72 The Narrator's Status, Contact and Stance 75 CONCLUSION 87 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 90