The Lying Mirror : The First-Person Stance and Sixteenth-Century Writing

Preface; Note on the text; Introduction; The vocabulary of disingenuousness; Methodological questions; Sources for the ‘self’; ‘Self’ and ‘ethos’;

PART I : INTENTIONALITY, IDENTIFICATION, MEANING At the window. Embodied intentionality At the window The inward glance Erasmus,Montaigne, andMartin Guerre (the ‘Alter Ego’); What do friends hold in common? ‘Les hommes moitié les uns des autres...’ Martin Guerre Lying and meaning: semantic intentionality Intentio and meaning-intention Meaning: problems in translation Lying Meaning what you say, saying what you mean. (Voluntas, sententia, mens, intellectus, sensus, etc.) Excursus: A middle region

PART II : ON (NOT) MEANING WHAT YOU SAY Aliud in pectore habens, aliud in ore: Erasmus and the habits of insincerity Epistolary portraits Polemic, friendship, and the open letter Edward Lee Invective, irony, allegory ‘J’entens, mais quoy’: Rabelais on reading, writing, and intending ‘Words in the air’: Thaumaste, Nazdecabre, and the question of perspicuous signs ‘Ce que j’entends par ces symboles Pythagoricques’: Rabelais on meaning and intention Are Rabelais’s chronicles ‘anamorphoses’ or ‘steganographies’? Who is the ‘I’ in early modern poetry? Varieties of Renaissance poetic action Lyric definitions Problems of poetic action: Ronsard, Muret, Baïf The death of the author: from Etienne Dolet to Clément Marot The poet as phoenix: conclusions Conclusion : ‘Faire semblant’ Bibliography