A Companion to Marie de France.
Title:
A Companion to Marie de France.
Author:
Whalen, Logan.
ISBN:
9789004215108
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (350 pages)
Series:
Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition ; v.27
Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Prologues and the Epilogues of Marie de France -- Chapter Two Marie de France and the Learned Tradition -- Chapter Three The Wound, the Knot, and the Book: Marie de France and Literary Traditions of Love in the Lais -- Chapter Four Literary and Socio-Cultural Aspects of the Lais of Marie de France -- Chapter Five Marie de France and the Anonymous Lays -- Chapter Six Speaking Through Animals in Marie de France's Lais and Fables -- Chapter Seven Marie de France and the Fable Tradition -- Chapter Eight The Fables of Marie de France and the Mirror of Princes -- Chapter Nine Gendered Sanctity in Marie de France's L'Espurgatoire seint Patriz and La Vie seinte Audree -- Chapter Ten Marie de France Translatrix II: La Vie seinte Audree -- Chapter Eleven The Manuscripts of Marie de France -- Frequently Cited Works -- Index.
Abstract:
Presenting traditional views alongside new critical approaches, the chapters in this book present fresh perspectives on the poetics of the 12th-century author, Marie de France, the first woman of letters to write in French.
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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