The Art Of Medieval French Romance
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The Art Of Medieval French Romance
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Author : Douglas Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1992-04-15
The Art Of Medieval French Romance written by Douglas Kelly and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Literary Objets D Art
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Author : Linda M. Clemente
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1992
Literary Objets D Art written by Linda M. Clemente and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
The Comedy Of Eros
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Author : James B. Wadsworth
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1997
The Comedy Of Eros written by James B. Wadsworth and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
French Romance Of The Later Middle Ages
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Author : Rosalind Brown-Grant
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-11-13
French Romance Of The Later Middle Ages written by Rosalind Brown-Grant and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Medieval French Romance
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Medieval French Romance written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Civilization, Medieval, in literature categories.
The Art Of Love
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Author : Peter L. Allen
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-09-30
The Art Of Love written by Peter L. Allen and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Rewriting Resemblance In Medieval French Romance
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Author : Paul Vincent Rockwell
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1995
Rewriting Resemblance In Medieval French Romance written by Paul Vincent Rockwell and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with French literature categories.
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Ways Of Love
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Author : Norma Lorre Goodrich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The Ways Of Love written by Norma Lorre Goodrich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with English literature categories.
The Comedy Of Eros
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Author : James B. Wadsworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-11-01
The Comedy Of Eros written by James B. Wadsworth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-01 with categories.
This high-spirited collection of medieval French love poetry in modern translation takes delightful advantage of the preoccupation of writers of that time and place with love and sex. Decidedly sexist by today's standards, the volume offers the modern reader translations from seven texts, among them Ovid's "Ars amatoria," one of the earliest "practical" love guides -- a satirical treatise chockablock with shrewd tips for seducers and lovers -- as well as selections from the anonymous "On Courtesy," from Robert de Blois's "Advice to Ladies," and four other works. The illustrations -- 7 woodcuts by Robert and Corinne Borja -- are a blend of modern and medieval styles. Renowned translator Norman R. Shapiro is a prof. at Wesleyan Univ.
Waldef
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Release Date : 2020
Waldef written by and has been published by ARC Humanities Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Romances categories.
The first ever English translation of Le Roman de Waldef, a significant early thirteenth-century representative of the French literature of early medieval England, and a fast-moving romance set against a history of pre-Conquest England.