Jacques Yver, Le Printemps d'Yver [Yver's Spring]

Margaret Harp (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Ed. by Phillip John Usher, New York University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.02: French Writing and Culture in the Renaissance, 1400-1600.
Vol. editors: Robert J. Hudson (Brigham Young University), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), Phillip John Usher (New York University), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1572

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Multigenre/Miscellaneous

Resources

Jacques Yver’s Printemps is a French Renaissance work evocative of multiple previous authors. The volume consists of stories most immediately reminiscent of Marguerite de Navarre’s collection of seventy-two French stories, the Heptaméron (1559). Yver’s stories and their premise – three gentlemen and three noble women who spin tales in order to distract each other from the horrors of the recent third religious war and to rejoice in the brief 1570 truce of Saint-Germain – provide an intriguing and distinctive continuation of this genre. Uneven in tone and sparse in number, Le Printemps’ five narratives of chivalry, tragedy, farce and fable nonetheless knew immediate success, perhaps because of the …

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Citation: Harp, Margaret. "Le Printemps d'Yver". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 February 2013 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34627, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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