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Reading Myth - Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,936
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Reading Myth - Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature (Hardcover): Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

Reading Myth - Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature (Hardcover)

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture

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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 disorder different from the struggles of classical epic. Chapter 2 analyzes the complex use of myth in the thirteenth-century "Roman de la Rose," which offers new conjunctions and interpretations of myths related to language, artistic expression, and sexuality. Chapter 3 focuses on the interpretive techniques and vocabulary of the fourteenth-century "Ovide moralise," such as "allegory," "fable," and "istoire," arguing that the Christianization of the "Metamorphoses" created a "new Ovid" in the form of a fourteenth-century friar.
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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Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
Release date: December 1997
First published: 1997
Authors: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2810-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
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LSN: 0-8047-2810-0
Barcode: 9780804728102

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