LEADER 05659nam 22006375 450 001 9910811589303321 005 20210114083708.0 010 $a1-283-15067-0 010 $a9786613150677 010 $a0-226-05969-3 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226059693 035 $a(CKB)2560000000073267 035 $a(EBL)688821 035 $a(OCoLC)721195328 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534016 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12232348 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534016 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10506417 035 $a(PQKB)10404776 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117479 035 $a(DE-B1597)522707 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226059693 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC688821 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000073267 100 $a20200424h20112003 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Anonymous Marie de France /$fR. Howard Bloch 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2011] 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (381 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-05968-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Texts -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. The Word Aventure and the Adventure of Words -- $tChapter Two. If Words Could Kill: The Lais and Fatal Speech -- $tChapter Three. The Voice in the Tomb of the Lais -- $tChapter Four. Beastly Talk: The Fables -- $tChapter Five. Changing Places: The Fables and Social Mobility at the Court of Henry II -- $tChapter Six. Marie's Fables and the Rise of the Monarchic State -- $tChapter Seven. A Medieval "Best Seller" -- $tChapter Eight. Between Fable and Romance -- $tChapter Nine. The Anglo-Norman Conquest of Ireland and the Colonization of the Afterlife -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book by one of our most admired and influential medievalists offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. The Anonymous Marie de France is the first work to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular Saint Patrick's Purgatory. Evidence about Marie de France's life is so meager that we know next to nothing about her-not where she was born and to what rank, who her parents were, whether she was married or single, where she lived and might have traveled, whether she dwelled in cloister or at court, nor whether in England or France. In the face of this great writer's near anonymity, scholars have assumed her to be a simple, naive, and modest Christian figure. Bloch's claim, in contrast, is that Marie is among the most self-conscious, sophisticated, complicated, and disturbing figures of her time-the Joyce of the twelfth century. At a moment of great historical turning, the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century, Marie was both a disrupter of prevailing cultural values and a founder of new ones. Her works, Bloch argues, reveal an author obsessed by writing, by memory, and by translation, and acutely aware not only of her role in the preservation of cultural memory, but of the transforming psychological, social, and political effects of writing within an oral tradition. Marie's intervention lies in her obsession with the performative capacities of literature and in her acute awareness of the role of the subject in interpreting his or her own world. According to Bloch, Marie develops a theology of language in the Lais, which emphasize the impossibility of living in the flesh along with a social vision of feudalism in decline. She elaborates an ethics of language in the Fables, which, within the context of the court of Henry II, frame and form the urban values and legal institutions of the Anglo-Norman world. And in her Espurgatoire, she produces a startling examination of the afterlife which Bloch links to the English conquest and occupation of medieval Ireland. With a penetrating glimpse into works such as these, The Anonymous Marie de France recovers the central achievements of one of the most pivotal figures in French literature. It is a study that will be of enormous value to medievalists, literary scholars, historians of France, and anyone interested in the advent of female authorship. 606 $aMarie, --de France, -- active 12th century --Criticism and interpretation 606 $aRomance Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aFrench Literature$2HILCC 610 $apoet, poetry, literature, literary, 12th century, francophone verse, romance, heroic genre, medieval, medievalists, reconnection, person, personhood, humanity, human beings, gender, women, womanhood, lais, animal fables, saint patrick, purgatory, unknown, mysterious, england, france, anonymity, anonymous, cultural values, culture, memory, translation, feudalism, transformation, transforming, performative capabilities, criticism, interpretation, espurgatoire, love, influence. 615 4$aMarie, --de France, -- active 12th century --Criticism and interpretation. 615 7$aRomance Literatures 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aFrench Literature 676 $a841/.1 700 $aBloch$b R. 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