Playful prepositional groupings in Ronsard’s Livret de Folastries (1553)

Further developing reflections on obscenity in the Folastries, this study plunges into the profound playfulness of prepositions in the work. It shows how prepositions, which loosen the Petrarchan meaning of terms that have become almost clichéd, and which direct our gaze toward places of intimacy, are a full-fledged resource of Ronsard’s playful Muse, mischievously establishing a veritable grammar of contact—between words and between flesh.