La peur en Occident (XIVe - XVIIIe siècles). Une cité assiégée

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Renaissance et Réforme / 227 by the three parts of his title.He concludes judiciously that the work, alternatively scabrous and moraliste, is emblematic of the fundamental dichotomy Marguerite observed and keenly felt between the aspiration for the ideal and the base nature of much of human life.That the Heptameron presents no solution to the problem is a sign that Marguerite herself could find none, not even in faith; indeed there may be some evidence that as the work progressed she grew more despondent over the impossibility of discovering a way out.The text seems to point finally to the view that the individual is responsible for finding his own road to salvation.I shall not bother to indicate the few misprints or what I take to be trivial errors in interpretation (except to say that the buming candle in Tale 63 seems to me to be inescapably phallic).One could have wished that the bibliography showed signs of a wider range of readings in linguistics, thematics, and structuralism, but then I am perhaps assuming more than Professor Tetel wished to accomplish.

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