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Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski - Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature - 9780804728102 - V9780804728102
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Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature

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Description for Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature Hardback. This work explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-12th century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks questions including what were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3H; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.

This book explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks: What were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Which techniques did poets use to integrate classical subject matter into their own texts? Was a special interpretive tradition created for vernacular texts?

In Chapter 1, the author shows how Latin epic texts were reoriented for political purposes in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm, gaining new depth by the addition of Ovidian elements that evoked threats of a ... Read more

Chapter 4 reveals that, although Guillaume de Machaut questioned the usefulness of mythic fables, he turned to them to invoke artistic consolation and ward off threats to his poetic voice. It also describes how Jean Froissart produced new myths by combining existing fables with newly invented elements in an attempt to dramatize the poetic creativity of his age. Finally, Chapter 5 demonstrates how Christine de Pizan offered the full range of medieval possibilities for myth: playing with the mythographic tradition, inscribing herself into Ovidian myths, offering historical explanations, rewriting myths from a pro-woman stance, and finally creating mythic universes of her own.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804728102
SKU
V9780804728102
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Reviews for Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature
"This innovative book . . . combines detailed readings of a wide textual corpus with a sophisticated awareness of the theoretical and methodological issues, and the scholarship is characterized at once by analytic rigor and interpretive flair."—Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania "Comprehensively documented, clearly written, and logically...structured, Reading Myth is obviously the work of a gifted teacher and passionate reader ... Read more

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