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11%OFFMargaret Jewett Burland - Strange Words: Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition - 9780268022037 - V9780268022037
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Strange Words: Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition

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Description for Strange Words: Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition Paperback. Offers separate but interrelated close readings of four medieval Roland texts in French and Occitan, paying attention to scenes in which the speeches of various characters perform or mirror narrative functions. This book focuses on discourse and narrative within the fictional universe. It compares multiple medieval Roland texts. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 184 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.

Strange Words offers separate but interrelated close readings of four medieval Roland texts in French and Occitan, paying particular attention to scenes in which the speeches of various characters perform or mirror narrative functions. In this clearly written and accessible book, Margaret Jewett Burland focuses on discourse and narrative within the fictional universe to argue persuasively that medieval authors and audiences understood the battle of Roncevaux and its aftermath as an appropriate story in which to incorporate implicit commentaries about contemporary issues. It allows readers to interpret the well-known Oxford version, The Song of Roland, within the expanded context of ... Read more

Strange Words is the first book in fifty years to compare multiple medieval Roland texts, and the first to do so in English. It will be welcomed by students and scholars of French and medieval studies.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268022037
SKU
V9780268022037
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Margaret Jewett Burland
Margaret Jewett Burland has taught French language and literature at Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago. She is co-editor of Meaning and Its Objects: Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance France.

Reviews for Strange Words: Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition
“Strange Words: Retelling And Reception In The Medieval Roland Textual Tradition makes an original contribution to the field of studies on the textual tradition of the Chanson de Roland, and beyond that to studies of the medieval French epic and of medieval French literature. It is the only study of its kind since Jules Horrent’s 1951 book La Chanson de ... Read more

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