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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828224403321

Titolo

Shaping identity in medieval French literature : the other within / / Adrian P. Tudor and Kristin L. Burr [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , 2020

ISBN

0-8130-5823-6

0-8130-5719-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 pages)

Collana

Florida scholarship online

Disciplina

840.9001

Soggetti

French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Literature and society - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Adrian P. Tudor and Kristin L. Burr -- The medieval moi multiple: names, surnames, and personifications / Douglas Kelly -- "Je veuil ung livre encommencier": the othernesses of Othon de Grandson's "Je" / Jane H.M. Taylor -- Huon de Bordeaux: the cultural dream as palimpsest / William Burgwinkle -- Roland's confession and the rhetorical construction of the other within / Mary Jane Schneck -- Ringing true: shifting identity in Le Roman de la Violette / Kristin L. Burr -- Inside out and outside in: (re-)reading the other in the cycle de Guillaume / Sara I. James -- Ami et Amile and Jean-Luc Nancy: friendship vs. community? / Jane Gilbert -- The devil inside: Merlin and the dark side of romance / Francis Gingras -- Melly and Merlin: locating little voices in Paris BnF fr. 24432 / James R. Simpson -- Sex, the church, and the medieval reader: shaping salvation in the Vie des P¿res / Adrian P. Tudor.

Sommario/riassunto

Considers the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in numerous ways. This works analysed span genres - epic, romance, lyric poetry, hagiography, fabliaux - and historical periods from the twelfth century to the late Middle Ages.