On the Shoulders of Giants: Rabelaisian Authorial Avatars in the Age of Print – Virginia Krause
La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York CityThe point of departure for this talk is the controversial hypothesis that Les Œuvres de Louise Labé was not the work of a woman author, but rather a literary hoax by a group of male poets. Rather than weighing in on this on-going polemic, however, Krause asks to what extent the conditions underlying the Labé hypothesis apply more generally to…