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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959900903321

Titolo

The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature / / edited by V. Greene

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006

ISBN

9786611365653

9781281365651

1281365653

9781403983459

1403983453

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Arthurian and Courtly Cultures, , 2945-6924

Altri autori (Persone)

GreeneVirginie Elisabeth <1959->

Disciplina

840.9/001

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Classical literature

Literature, Ancient

Literature, Medieval

Literary Theory

Classical and Antique Literature

Medieval Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Authorial Relays: Continuing Chrétien's Conte du Graal -- 2 Borrowing, Citation, and Authorship in Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame -- 3 The Roman de la Rose as a Möbius Strip (On Interpretation) -- 4 The Medieval "Author": An Idea Whose Time Hadn't Come? -- 5 From One Mask to Another: The Trials and Tribulations of an Author of Romance at the Time of Perceforest -- 6 The Experiencing Self and the Narrating Self in Medieval French Chronicles -- 7 Neutrality Affects: Froissart and the Practice of Historiographic Authorship -- 8 Portraits of Authors at the End of the Middle Ages: Tombs in Majesty and Carnivalesque Epitaphs -- 9 Frontally and in Profile: The Identifying Gesture of the Late Medieval



Author -- 10 Medieval Bestsellers in the Age of Print: Melusine and Olivier de Castille -- 11 What Happened to Medievalists after the Death of the Author? -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Thirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. 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.