The Art Of Medieval French Romance

Author : Douglas Kelly
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299131937

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Douglas Kelly provides a comprehensive and historically valid analysis of the art of medieval French romance as the romancers themselves describe it. He focuses on well-known writers, such as Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, and also draws on a wide range of other sources—prose romances, non-Arthurian romances, thirteenth-century verse romances, and variant versions from the later Middle Ages. Kelly is the first scholar to present the “art” of medieval romance to a modern audience through the interventions and comments of medieval writers themselves. The book begins by examining the difficulties scholars perceive in medieval literature: problems such as source and intertextuality, structure in its manifold modern meanings, and character psychology and individuality. These issues frame Kelly’s identification and discussion of all the known authorial interventions on the art and craft of romance. Kelly’s careful reconstruction of the “art” of romance, based on the records left by the romancers themselves, will be an invaluable resource and guide for all medievalists.

Author : Douglas Kelly
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0299131904

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The Art of Medieval French Romance by Douglas Kelly Pdf

Douglas Kelly provides a comprehensive and historically valid analysis of the art of medieval French romance as the romancers themselves describe it. He focuses on well-known writers, such as Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, and also draws on a wide range of other sources—prose romances, non-Arthurian romances, thirteenth-century verse romances, and variant versions from the later Middle Ages. Kelly is the first scholar to present the “art” of medieval romance to a modern audience through the interventions and comments of medieval writers themselves. The book begins by examining the difficulties scholars perceive in medieval literature: problems such as source and intertextuality, structure in its manifold modern meanings, and character psychology and individuality. These issues frame Kelly’s identification and discussion of all the known authorial interventions on the art and craft of romance. Kelly’s careful reconstruction of the “art” of romance, based on the records left by the romancers themselves, will be an invaluable resource and guide for all medievalists.

Author : Douglas Kelly
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015033144505

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Medieval French Romance by Douglas Kelly Pdf

Provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the many branches and subgenres of romance. It traces the evolution and adaptation of lays, chronicles, epic, "chansons de geste", allegory, and other prose and verse forms, describes the elements that characterize each, and explains their relationship to and influence on romance.

Author : Linda M. Clemente
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001594485

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Literary Objets D'art by Linda M. Clemente Pdf

The genesis of this book was the coincidence of two readings: Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Purgatorio. Each work includes descriptions of art objects, Daedalus' and God's artwork respectively. These descriptions, or ekphraseis, also occur frequently in Old French romances. Too long considered as embellishment or artistic virtuosity, they have received little rigorous critical attention. This book offers a step in that direction by analyzing the narrative significance of art objects in three very different works: the anonymous Eneas, Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide, and Jean Renart's Escoufle. Along with intertextuality and mise en abyme, ekphrasis opens new avenues for interpreting this literature.

Author : James B. Wadsworth
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0252065816

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The Comedy of Eros by James B. Wadsworth Pdf

Author : Rosalind Brown-Grant
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191564956

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French Romance of the Later Middle Ages by Rosalind Brown-Grant Pdf

Whilst French romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries have long enjoyed a privileged place in the literary history of France, romances from the later middle ages have been largely neglected by modern scholars, despite their central role in the chivalric culture of the day. In particular, although this genre has been seen as providing a forum within which ideas about masculine and feminine roles were debated and prescribed, little work has been done on the gender ideology of texts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This study seeks to fill this gap in the scholarship by analysing how the views of gender found in earlier romances were reassessed and reshaped in the texts produced in the moralising intellectual environment of the later medieval period. In order to explore these topics, this book discusses fifteen historico-realist prose romances written in the century from 1390, many of which were commissioned at the court of Burgundy. It addresses key issues in recent studies of gender in medieval culture including the construction of chivalric masculinity, the representation of adolescent desire, and the social and sexual roles of husbands and wives. In addition to offering close readings of these texts, it shows how the romances of the period were informed by ideas about gender which circulated in contemporary works such as manuals of chivalry, moral treatises, and marriage sermons. It thus aims not only to provide the first in-depth study of this little-known area of French literary history, but also to question the critical consensus on the role of gender in medieval romance that has arisen from an exclusive focus on earlier works in the genre.

Author : Paul Vincent Rockwell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : French literature
ISBN : 0815320353

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Rewriting Resemblance in Medieval French Romance by Paul Vincent Rockwell Pdf

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Heldris (de Cornuälle.)
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015056167706

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Roman de Silence by Heldris (de Cornuälle.) Pdf

This bilingual edition, based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature, to those in women's studies and, most important, to everyone who loves a first-rate story.

Author : Professor of French Language and Literature Simon Gaunt,Simon Gaunt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199272075

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Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature by Professor of French Language and Literature Simon Gaunt,Simon Gaunt Pdf

Examines the association of love and death in medieval French and Occitan courtly literature using an approach informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis and Jacques Derrida. Offers new readings of canonical authors and texts, including Bernart de Ventadorn, Jaufre Rudel, Chrétien de Troyes, Thomas's Tristan, the Prose Lancelot, the Tristan en prose, La Mort le roi Artu, Marie de France, Le Chastelaine de Vergy, Le Castelain deCouci, and Le Roman de la Rose.

Author : Sofia Lodén
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843845829

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French Romance, Medieval Sweden and the Europeanisation of Culture by Sofia Lodén Pdf

Translations of French romances into other vernaculars in the Middle Ages have sometimes been viewed as "less important" versions of prestigious sources, rather than in their place as part of a broader range of complex and wider European text traditions. This consideration of how French romance was translated, rewritten and interpreted in medieval Sweden focuses on the wider context. It examines four major texts which appear in both languages: Le Chevalier au lion and its Swedish translation Herr Ivan; Le Conte de Floire et Blancheflor and Flores och Blanzeflor; Valentin et Sansnom (the original French text has been lost, but the tale has survivedin the prose version Valentin et Orson) and the Swedish text Namnlös och Valentin; and Paris et Vienne and the fragmentary Swedish version Riddar Paris och jungfru Vienna. Each is analysed through the lens of different themes: female characters, children, animals and masculinity. The author argues that French romance made a major contribution to the Europeanisation of medieval culture, whilst also playing a key role in the formation of a national literature in Sweden.

Author : Raymond J. Cormier
Publisher : Romance Monographs
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCAL:B4934281

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One Heart One Mind by Raymond J. Cormier Pdf

Author : Rosalind Brown-Grant,Rebecca Dixon
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : 2503553184

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Text/image Relations in Late Medieval French and Burgundian Culture (fourteenth-sixteenth Centuries) by Rosalind Brown-Grant,Rebecca Dixon Pdf

From the contents:00Part I: Allegorical Dream-Visions and Debate Poems Jonathan Morton, 'Friars in love: Manuscript illumination as literary commentary in three fourteenth-century manuscripts of the Roman de la rose' (Paris, BnF, MS .25526; Baltimore, Walters, MS W. 143;London, BL, MS Royal 19 B XIII) - Emma Cayley, ‘Entre deux sommes’: Imagining desire in the songe de la Pucelle' - HelenJ. Swi , 'Limits of representation in late fifteenth-century Burgundy: What the eye doesn’t hear and the ear doesn’t see'. 00Part II: 'Burgundian prose narratives' Dominique Lagorgette, 'Staging transgression rough text and image: Violence and nudity in the cent nouvelles nouvelles'(Glasgow, University Library, MS Hunter252, and Vérard 1486 and 1498) – Rebecca Dixon, 'The Roman de Buscalus; or, the artof not being French' – Rosalind Brown-Grant, 'Personal drama or chivalric spectacle? The reception of the Roman d’Olivier de Castille in the illuminations of the Wavrin aster and Loyset Liédet'00Part III: Reworkings of classical and Medieval auctores' J. Chimène Bateman, 'The hybrid art of the compiler: Text/Image relations in the Ovidemoralisé of Colard Mansion' – KathleenWilson-Chevalier, 'Proliferating narratives: Texts, images, and (Mostly Female) dedicatees in a few héroïdes productions' – Elizabeth L’Estrange, 'Re-Presenting Emilia in the context of the Querelle des femmes: Text and image in Anne de Graville’s Beau Roman list of manuscripts and early printed editions'

Author : Norma Lorre Goodrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015046446962

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The Ways of Love by Norma Lorre Goodrich Pdf

Author : David John Athole Ross
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, French
ISBN : 2503581056

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Illustrated Medieval Alexander-books in French Verse by David John Athole Ross Pdf

"The core of this book on the French verse Alexander in France and Italy was written by eminent Alexander specialist David J.A. Ross, who left an incomplete typescript at his death. In its emphasis on illustration, this book offers new perspectives on the reception of one of the most popular medieval heroes. Ross's analysis of the illustrations proves that despite some convergent patterns there is no iconographic programme that coordinates the three major verse traditions as there is for the versions in prose. Nevertheless, the verse versions continued to be copied and illustrated long after the emergence of prose. The editors have expanded Ross's text, as he wished, to include a comparative analysis of the iconography and they have situated each manuscript as far as possible in its cultural context, demonstrating that the producers of the verse Alexander were also responsible for writing and illustrating a large number of other vernacular and liturgical books in Northern France, Paris, the South, and Italy. This volume is a sequel to Ross's Studies in the Alexander Romance and his Illustrated medieval Alexander-books in Germany and the Netherlands, and makes available an extensive corpus of high-quality images of this great hero."--

Author : Peter L. Allen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512800005

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The Art of Love by Peter L. Allen Pdf

Two major French medieval literary works that claim to teach their readers the art of love are virtually torn apart by the contradictions and conflicts they contain. In Andreas Capellanus's late twelfth-century Latin De amore, the author instructs his friend Walter in the amatory art in the first two books, but then harshly repudiates his own teachings and love itself in a third and final book. In Jean de Meun's encyclopedic continuation of the Romance of the Rose, written in French in the 1270s, a succession of allegorical figures alternately promote and excoriate the lover's amatory pursuits. Jean's romance, moreover, virtually rewrites the dream vision of Guillaume de Lorris, which it claims simply to extend, and ends with the depiction of a sexual act that seems to throw the book's whole structure into confusion. The more closely one reads this works, Peter L. Allen contents, the harder it is to understand them: "Didactic, heavy-handed, and problematic, they teach would-be lovers how to behave in order to have others accomplish their desires, yet they also contain vociferous passages that dissuade their protagonists from the practice of this art, which, they claim, leads not only to earthly destruction but also to eternal damnation." Readers from the Middle Ages to the present have been troubled by the fact that these texts are both radically self-contradictory and fundamentally at odds with the accepted morality of medieval Christian Europe. And for decades, scholars have tried to determine how these two works are related to what is often referred to as "courtly love." In The Art of Love, Allen persuasive argues that the De amore and the Romance of the Rose are central to the courtly tradition. Allen contends that their conflicts and contradictions are not signs of confusion or artistic failure, but are instead essential clues which show that the medieval works follow the disruptive structural model of Ovid's first century elegiac Ars amatoria (Art of Love) and Remedia amoris (Cures for Love). Andreas's and Jean's works, no less than Ovid's, teach not the art of love for practicing lovers, but the literary art of love poetry and fiction. Based squarely on Ovid's poems, which were among the most widely read classical texts in medieval Europe, the De amore and the Romance of the Rose use the classical tradition in a particularly assertive fashion—and suggest a way for fantasies of love to exist even against a background of ecclesiastical prohibition.