This chapter explores the intersection between two different kinds of nouvelle: on the one hand, a piece of news; and on the other, a literary genre, the novella. Both senses were current in the early sixteenth century when Marguerite de Navarre, the sister of the French king François I, wrote the collection of novellas now known as the Heptameron. Developing its model, Boccaccio’s Decameron, the Heptameron includes an elaborate frame narrative in which the storytellers debate each story after they hear it. From these discussions, and the stories themselves, emerges a concern with the underlying principles of storytelling: truth, authority, witness and interpretation. These are concerns, this chapter argues, that were also current in sixteenth-century news culture, and in particular the short sensational news pamphlets that became popular during the religious wars of the second half of the century. The chapter examines the claims made in both the Heptameron and in news publications and argues that the Heptameron aspires to provide the analytical tools required to assess any account that claims to be truthful; an aspiration that anticipates later critiques of sensationalist and partisan news. It does this through a practice of discrimination, a careful parsing of a story and its underlying motivations.

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Marguerite de Navarre 的 Heptameron (1559) 和 16 世纪法国新闻文化中的新颖性、虚假信息和歧视

本章探讨了两种不同类型的新小说之间的交集：一方面是新闻；另一方面是新闻。另一方面，一种文学体裁，中篇小说。这两种感觉都在 16 世纪初流行，当时法国国王弗朗索瓦一世的妹妹玛格丽特·德·纳瓦拉 (Marguerite de Navarre) 撰写了现在被称为七边形的中篇小说集。Heptameron 开发了它的模型 Boccaccio's Decameron，包括一个精心制作的框架叙事，讲故事的人在听到每个故事后对其进行辩论。从这些讨论和故事本身中，人们开始关注讲故事的基本原则：真相、权威、见证和解释。本章认为，这些担忧也存在于 16 世纪的新闻文化中，尤其是在本世纪下半叶的宗教战争期间流行的耸人听闻的简短新闻小册子。本章审查了 Heptameron 和新闻出版物中的主张，并认为 Heptameron 渴望提供评估任何声称真实的帐户所需的分析工具；这一愿望预示着后来对耸人听闻和党派新闻的批评。它通过歧视实践、仔细分析故事及其潜在动机来做到这一点。这一愿望预示着后来对耸人听闻和党派新闻的批评。它通过歧视实践、仔细分析故事及其潜在动机来做到这一点。这一愿望预示着后来对耸人听闻和党派新闻的批评。它通过歧视实践、仔细分析故事及其潜在动机来做到这一点。