
The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature.
Title:
The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature.
Author:
Green, Virginie.
ISBN:
9781403983459
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Series:
Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Authorial Relays: Continuing Chrétien's Conte du Graal -- 2 Borrowing, Citation, and Authorship in Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame -- 3 The Roman de la Rose as a Möbius Strip (On Interpretation) -- 4 The Medieval "Author": An Idea Whose Time Hadn't Come? -- 5 From One Mask to Another: The Trials and Tribulations of an Author of Romance at the Time of Perceforest -- 6 The Experiencing Self and the Narrating Self in Medieval French Chronicles -- 7 Neutrality Affects: Froissart and the Practice of Historiographic Authorship -- 8 Portraits of Authors at the End of the Middle Ages: Tombs in Majesty and Carnivalesque Epitaphs -- 9 Frontally and in Profile: The Identifying Gesture of the Late Medieval Author -- 10 Medieval Bestsellers in the Age of Print: Melusine and Olivier de Castille -- 11 What Happened to Medievalists after the Death of the Author? -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This collected assesses of the role of the author in Medieval French literature, with a focus on writers such as Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart, Christine de Pizan, and lesser-known figures including Gerbert de Montreuil, Gautier de Coincy, Baudoin Butor, or David Aubert.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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