Rewriting Medieval French Literature : : Studies in Honour of Jane H. M. Taylor /

Rewriting Medieval French Literature : : Studies in Honour of Jane H. M. Taylor / / ed. by Leah Tether, Keith Busby.

Jane H. M. Taylor is one of the world's foremost scholars of rewriting or réécriture. Her focus has been on literature in medieval and Renaissance France, but rewriting, including continuation, translation, and adaptation, lies at the heart of literary traditions in all vernaculars. This book e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Archibald, Elizabeth,
Besamusca, Bart,
Brandsma, Frank,
Busby, Keith,
Chase, Carol J.,
Chuhan Campbell, Laura,
Colombo Timelli, Maria,
Ferlampin-Acher, Christine,
Hinton, Thomas,
Koble, Nathalie,
Moran, Patrick,
Mühlethaler, Jean-Claude,
Putter, Ad,
Salamon, Anne,
Szkilnik, Michelle,
Séguy, Mireille,
Tasker Grimbert, Joan,
Taylor, Jessica,
Tether, Leah,
Trachsler, Richard,
Whalen, Logan E.,
HerausgeberIn:
Busby, Keith,
Tether, Leah,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 370 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword: Jane H. M. Taylor
  • Introduction: Rewriting Medieval French Literature
  • The Legacy of the Guillaume d’Orange Cycle: Rewriting the Charroi de Nîmes, the Couronnement de Louis, and the Prise d’Orange
  • Back to the Future: The Conte du Graal and the First Continuation in the light of the Elucidation and the Bliocadran
  • Artus de Bretagne, An “Extensional” Romance: Comparing Ysaïe le Triste, Perceforest, and Artus de Bretagne
  • The Popularity of the Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes and the Continuations in Medieval England and Scotland
  • The Chapel on the Borderland: Perlesvaus retold by Fouke Fitz Warin
  • Jofroi de Waterford Rewrites Troy and Rome
  • Gifts Given and Received: The Roman de la Dame à la Licorne et du Beau Chevalier, a multimedia present
  • What Makes a Narrative Cycle Work? The example of the Burgsteinfurt manuscript
  • From Verse to Prose, a Matter of Size? Length and lacunae in French mises en prose
  • Retouching the Hero’s Portrait in the Burgundian Prose Erec: The significance of the insignificant
  • All Around the “Table”, or How to Read Galien Rethoré (Antoine Vérard, 1500)
  • Printers’ Prefaces and Rewriting in Arthurian Romance
  • Passionate Friendship in Pierre Sala’s Chevalier au lion (Yvain, Lunete, and the Lion)
  • From Rewriting to Recycling: Medieval material in Pierre Sala and Jeanne Flore
  • Guinglain in Arcadia
  • Rewriting Renart: Medieval obscenity for modern children
  • Afterword
  • Index

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