Rewriting Medieval French Literature

Studies in Honour of Jane H. M. Taylor

Leah Tether, Keith Busby, Leah Tether, Keith Busby

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9783110638370
• eBook ISBN: 9783110638622
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: French Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Jane H. M. Taylor is one of the world's foremost scholars of rewriting or réécriture. Her focus has been on literature in medieval and Renaissance France, but rewriting, including continuation, translation, and adaptation, lies at the heart of literary traditions in all vernaculars. This book explores both the interdisciplinarity of rewriting and Taylor's remarkable contribution to its study.

The rewriting and reinterpretation of narratives across chronological, social and/or linguistic boundaries represents not only a crucial feature of text transmission, but also a locus of cultural exchange. Taylor has shown that the adaptation of material to conform to the expectations, values, or literary tastes of a different audience can reveal important information regarding the acculturation and reception of medieval texts. In recent years, numerous scholars across disciplines have thus turned to this field of enquiry.

This collection of studies dedicated to the rewriting of medieval French literature from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries by Taylor's friends, colleagues, and former students offers not only a fitting tribute to Taylor's career, but also a timely consolidation of the very latest research in the field, which will be vital for all scholars of medieval rewriting.

With contributions from Jessica Taylor, Keith Busby, Leah Tether, Logan E. Whalen, Mireille Séguy, Christine Ferlampin-Acher, Ad Putter, Anne Salamon, Patrick Moran, Nathalie Koble, Bart Besamusca, Frank Brandsma, Richard Trachsler, Carol J. Chase, Maria Colombo Timelli, Laura Chuhan Campbell, Joan Tasker-Grimbert, Jean-Claude Mühlethaler, Michelle Szkilnik, Thomas Hinton, Elizabeth Archibald.

Index

Note: This index provides references to names of people/characters, place names, manuscript shelfmarks, and titles of primary texts. The names of editors of primary texts and scholars are included only where their works are included as core subject in a discussion (rather than as supporting criticism). In the interests of navigational ease, text titles commencing with an article are indexed by the first proper word, with the article transposed to the end of the entry. The same is true of honorifics/personal titles (e. g. “Sir”), except where that title is the first word of a primary text’s title. Character names with different spellings (e. g. Gawain, Gauvain, Gawyne, Walewein, and so on) are maintained and given as separate entries to aid navigation to particular texts of sets of texts.

• Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS Peniarth 11
• Acelin
• Achilles
• Actuarius
• Adam
• Adenet le Roi
  • Cleomadés
• Aemilius Lepidus
• Aeneas
• Agamemnon
• Aguisel, king of Scotland
• Aix-la-Chapelle
• Alba
• Albrecht van Voorne
• Alein
• A...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: Rewriting Medieval French Literature
• The Legacy of the Guillaume d’Orange Cycle: Rewriting the Charroi de Nîmes, the Couronnement de Louis, and the Prise d’Orange
• Back to the Future: The Conte du Graal and the First Continuation in the light of the Elucidation and the Bliocadran
• Artus de Bretagne, An “Extensional” Romance: Comparing Ysaïe le Triste, Perceforest, and Artus de Bretagne
• The Popularity of the Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes and the Continuations in Medieval England and Scotland
• The Chapel on the Borderland: Perlesvaus retold by Fouke Fitz Warin
• Jofroi de Waterford Rewrites Troy and Rome
• Gifts Given and Received: The Roman de la Dame à la Licorne et du Beau Chevalier, a multimedia present
• What Makes a Narrative Cycle Work? The example of the Burgsteinfurt manuscript
• From Verse to Prose, a Matter of Size? Length and lacunae in French mises en prose
• Retouching the Hero’s Portrait in the Burgundian Prose Erec: The significance of the insignificant
• All Around the “Table”, or How to Read Galien Rethoré (Antoine Vérard, 1500)
• Printers’ Prefaces and Rewriting in Arthurian Romance
• Passionate Friendship in Pierre Sala’s Chevalier au lion (Yvain, Lunete, and the Lion)
• From Rewriting to Recycling: Medieval material in Pierre Sala and Jeanne Flore
• Guinglain in Arcadia
• Rewriting Renart: Medieval obscenity for modern children
• Afterword
• Index