Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Introduction / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Chapter One. Pantagruel And Gargantua As Mock Biographies / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Chapter Two. Dissecting Quaresmeprenant / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Chapter Three. Rabelais And The Art Of Memory / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Chapter Four. Architecture And Poetry: The Antiquitez De Rome / Joachim Du Bellay -- Chapter Five. Changing Stuctures In Remy Belleau’S Pierres Précieuses (1576) / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Chapter Six. Petrarch Translated And Illustrated, From Clément Marot To Jan Van Der Noot / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Chapter Seven. Dispositio In Fable Books: The Gheeraerts Filiation (1567-1617) / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Chapter Eight. Montaigne, Plutarch And Historiography / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Chapter Nine. ‘Good Wives’. Dispositio And Gender In The Essais / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Chapter Ten. Erratic Structures In De La Vanité / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Epilogue / A.J. Vanderjagt -- General Bibliography / A.J. Vanderjagt -- Index / A.J. Vanderjagt.

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Drawing on the classical concept of rhetorical dispositio , this study gives new interpretations of a number of literary texts of the French Renaissance, some of them well-known (by Rabelais, Du Bellay and Montaigne), others less-known (the Pierres précieuses by Remy Belleau and the anonymous collections of emblematic fables). All these texts are organized according to an often problematic and disruptive dispositio that dissociates itself from the prescribed and preexisting models. This study not only seeks to approach the problem of literary ordering from a historical and theoretical perspective, it also intends to frame this topic in a more general context: grotesque bodiliness in Rabelais’s novels; historiography, gender and travelogue in Montaigne’s Essays ; imitation and intermediality in the case of the poets and the fabulists.