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Philippe de Commynes - Memory, Betrayal, Text (Hardcover, 3 Rev Ed): Irit Ruth Kleiman Philippe de Commynes - Memory, Betrayal, Text (Hardcover, 3 Rev Ed)
Irit Ruth Kleiman
R2,151 Discovery Miles 21 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Philippe de Commynes, a diplomat who specialized in clandestine operations, served King Louis XI during his campaign to undermine aristocratic resistance and consolidate the sovereignty of the French throne. He is credited with inventing the political memoir, but his reminiscence has also been described as 'the confessions of a traitor': Commynes had abandoned Louis' rival, the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold, before joining forces with the king. This study provides a literary re-evaluation of Commynes' text - a perennial subject of scandal and fascination - while questioning what the terms 'traitor' or 'betrayed' meant in the context of fifteenth-century France. Drawing on diplomatic letters and court transcripts, Irit Kleiman examines the mutual connections between writing and betrayal in Commynes' representation of Louis' reign, the relationship between the author and the king, and the emergence of the memoir as an autobiographical genre. This study significantly deepens our understanding of how historical narrative and diplomatic activities are intertwined in the work of this iconic, iconoclastic figure.

Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Irit Ruth Kleiman Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Irit Ruth Kleiman
R3,595 Discovery Miles 35 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Twelve medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including law, literature, and religion address the question: What did it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one - during the Middle Ages? This collection reveals how the philosophy, theology, and aesthetics of the voice inhabit some of the most canonical texts of the Middle Ages.

Arthurian Literature XXXI (Hardcover): Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson Arthurian Literature XXXI (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Erin Kissick, Irit Ruth Kleiman, Joan Tasker Grimbert, …
R2,353 Discovery Miles 23 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The studies collected in this volume demonstrate the enduring vitality of the Arthurian legend in a wide range of places, times and media. Chretien's Conte du Graal features first in a study of the poem's place in its Anglo-Norman context, followed by four essays on Malory's Morte Darthur. Two of these deal with the significance of wounds and wounding in Malory's text, while the third explores the problematic aspects of sleep and the "slepynge knight" in that same romance. The fourth considers "transformative female corpses" as, quite literally, the embodiment of critical comment on the chivalric community in the Morte Darthur. There follow two studies of the Arthurian legend captured in material objects: the first concerns the early twelfth-century images on a marble column from the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, the second a twentieth-century tapestry created by Lady Trevelyan for the family home at Wallington Hall. The volume closes with an essay that brings us into the twenty-first century, with an assessment of Kaamelott, an irreverent French Pythonesque television series. ElizabethArchibald is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society; David F. Johnson is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee. Contributors: Karen Cherewatuk,Tara Foster, Joan Tasker Grimbert, Erin Kissick, Irit Ruth Kleiman, Megan Leitch, Roger Simpson, K.S. Whetter.

Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000 to 1800 - Degree Zero (Hardcover, 0): Babette Hellemans, Alissa Jones... Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000 to 1800 - Degree Zero (Hardcover, 0)
Babette Hellemans, Alissa Jones Nelson; Contributions by Rokus Groot, Pierre-Olivier Dittmar, Cedric Giraud, …
R3,917 Discovery Miles 39 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The act of drawing a line or uttering a word is often seen as integral to the process of making art. This is especially obvious in music and the visual arts, but applies to literature, performance, and other arts as well. These collected essays, written by scholars from diverse fields, take a historical view of the richness of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo) in order to draw out debates, sometimes implicit and sometimes formally stated, about the production and reproduction of cultural meaning in a period of great change and novelty, between the beginnings of the medieval intellectual tradition and the imprint of the Enlightenment. The authors pose the following questions: Do tradition and creativity conflict with one another, or are they complementary? What are the tensions between composition and live performance? What is the role of the audience in perceiving the object of art? Are such objects fixed or flexible? What about the status of the event? Is the event part of creation, in the sense that it disturbs the still waters of historical continuity? These and other questions build on the foundation of Roland Barthes' concept of Degree Zero, offering new insights into what it means to create.

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