Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature
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Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature

The Other Within

  1. 205 pages
  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature

The Other Within

About this book

This collection considers the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in numerous ways. The works analyzed span genres—epic, romance, lyric poetry, hagiography, fabliaux—and historical periods from the twelfth century to the late Middle Ages. Contributors examine the complexity of the notion of self through a wide range of lenses, from marginal characters to gender to questions of voice and naming. Studying a variety of texts—including Conte du Graal, Roman de la Rose, Huon de Bordeaux, and the Oxford Roland—they conceptualize the Other Within as an individual who simultaneously exists within a group while remaining foreign to it. They explore the complex interactions between and among individuals and groups, and demonstrate how identity can be imposed and self-imposed not only by characters but by authors and audiences. Taken together, these essays highlight the fluidity and complexity of identity in medieval French texts, and underscore both the richness of the literature and its engagement with questions that are at once more and less modern than they initially appear. Contributors: Adrian P. Tudor | Kristin L. Burr | William Burgwinkle | Jane Gilbert | Francis Gingras | Sara I. James | Douglas Kelly | Mary Jane Schenck | James R. Simpson | Jane H.M. Taylor

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. SHAPING IDENTITY IN MEDIEVAL FRENCH LITERATURE
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature
  8. 1. The Medieval Moi Multiple: Names, Surnames, and Personifications
  9. 2. “Je vueil ung livre commencier”: The Othernesses of Othon de Grandson’s “Je”
  10. 3. Huon de Bordeaux: The Cultural Dream as Palimpsest
  11. 4. Ringing True: Shifting Identity in Le Roman de la Violette
  12. 5. Inside Out and Outside In: (Re-)Reading the Other in the Guillaume Cycle
  13. 6. Ami et Amile and Jean-Luc Nancy: Friendship versus Community?
  14. 7. The Devil Inside: Merlin and the Dark Side of Romance
  15. 8. Melly and Merlin: Locating Little Voices in Paris BnF fr. 24432
  16. 9. Sex, the Church, and the Medieval Reader: Shaping Salvation in the Vie des Pères
  17. 10. Roland’s Confession and the Rhetorical Construction of the Other Within
  18. Notes
  19. List of Contributors
  20. Index