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Charles d'Orléans in England (1415-1440)by Mary-Jo Arn
Boydell & Brewer 2000; US$ 56.25Charles, duc d'Orléans, prince and poet, was a captive in England for twenty-five years following the battle of Agincourt. The studies in this volume, by European and American scholars, focus on his life and actions during that time, and show him as a serious and learned reader, a cunning political figure (accomplished in the skills that would impress the English nobility around him), and a masterful poet, innovative, witty, and intensely self-aware. Discussion of his manuscripts, his social and political relationships, his extensive library, and his poetry in two languages reveal him as a shrewd observer of life, which in his poetry he describes in ways not seen again until the Renaissance. more...
The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literatureby Virginie Greene
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 80.00Thirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. In medieval French literature there are no Authors, only authors - and enigmas. Is the medieval author a name or a function, an authority or an image? The way we answer questions shapes how we think about names such as Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart, Christine de Pizan, or lesser-known figures like Gerbert de Montreuil, Gautier de Coincy, Baudoin Butor, or David Aubert. The essays in this volume create a prism through which to understand medieval authorship as a process and the medieval author as an agency in the making. This book will appeal to all those who are interested in theoretical approaches to... more...
De Zin van Verhalenby Ronald Soetaert
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 22.45Met deze uitspraak van de Hongaarse schrijver György Konrad opende 'Nauwgezet en Wanhopig' van Wim Kayzer - een legendarische tv-serie vooral bekend bij literatuurliefhebbers. In de vele manieren waarop we zin en betekenis zoeken blijkt het narratieve een belangrijke rol te spelen. Soetaert presenteert een (b)logboek waarin hij de vraag 'wat is een verhaal' vervangt door 'wat wordt er over verhalen in verhalen verteld'? Het antwoord zoekt hij in boeken en films, in hoge en lage cultuur, in woord en beeld, in computergames en soaps... En last but not least: op het Internet als een nieuwe verhalenmachine. Kortom: vraag iemand naar de zin van verhalen, en hij vertelt nog een verhaal. De jaarlijkse Tiele-lezing, waarin actuele... more...
Debate and Dialogueby Emma Cayley
Clarendon Press 2006; US$ 110.00Alain Chartier was one of medieval France's most influential writers, but has been overlooked by modern criticism. This is the first full-length study of his work in its cultural context. It reconsiders the French verse debates in particular, based on their material context of transmission and on similarities with his French and Latin prose works. - ;In early humanist France two debating traditions converge: one literary and vernacular, one intellectual and conducted mainly via Latin epistles. Debate and Dialogue demonstrates how the two fuse in the vernacular verse debates of Alain Chartier, secretary and notary at the court of Charles VI, and later, Charles VII. In spite of considerable contemporary praise for Chartier, his work has remained... more...
Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Old French Narrativeby Phyllis Gaffney
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Examining the portrayal of childhood and youth in a large sample of medieval French verse narratives, this study analyzes representations of childhood in two genres: chansons de geste, or Old French epic poems, and romances. Phyllis Gaffney identifies dif more...
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