TY - BOOK AU - Robert-Nicoud,Vincent Corentin TI - The world upside-down in 16th century French literature and visual culture T2 - Faux titre : etudes de langue et litterature francaises, SN - 9789004381827 AV - PQ239 U1 - 840.9/3003 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill Rodopi KW - French literature KW - 16th century KW - History and criticism KW - Symbolic inversion in literature KW - Symbolic inversion in art KW - Literature and society KW - France KW - History KW - Satire, French KW - Art KW - Renaissance KW - Intellectual life N1 - Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- The Sixteenth-Century World Upside Down -- Adages, Paradoxes and Emblems -- Rabelais’s World Upside Down -- Religious Satire and Overturned Cooking Pots -- Social and Cosmic Disorders -- General Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum N2 - In The World Upside Down in 16th Century French Literature and Visual Culture Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an interdisciplinary account of the topos of the world upside down in early modern France. To call something ‘topsy-turvy’ in the sixteenth century is to label it as abnormal. The topos of the world upside down evokes a world in which everything is inside-out and out of bounds: fish live in trees, children rule over their parents, and rivers flow back to their source. The world upside down proves to be key in understanding how the social, political, and religious turmoil of sixteenth-century France was represented and conceptualised, and allows us to explore the dark side of the Renaissance by unpacking one of its most prevalent metaphors UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004381827 ER -