| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The uses of embroidery in the romances of Jean Renart : gender, history, textuality / Nancy A. Jones -- "Once there was an emperor ..." : a political reading of the romances of Jean Renart / John W. Baldwin -- Lyric insertions and the reversal of romance conventions in Jean Renart's Roman de la rose or Guillaume de Dole / Maureen Barry McCann Boulton -- Suspension and fall : the fragmentation and linkage of lyric insertions in Le roman de la rose (Guillaume de Dole) and Le roman de la violette / Michel Zink -- Jean Renart's expanded text : Lïenor and the lyrics of Guillaume de Dole / Regina Psaki -- On the untranslatable surface of Guillaume de Dole / Patricia Terry -- Jean Renart and medieval song / Hendrik van der Werf |
| Summary |
In this first volume of critical essays ever devoted to Jean Renart's work, contributors draw on political and social history, women's studies, translation theory, musicology, and literary theory to illuminate Jean's remarkable contribution to the highly complex genre of courtly romance. An extraordinary blend of realism and high artifice, unique in its combined use of songs and narrative, Jean Renart and the Art of Romance offers zestful dalliances in high places, handsome but self-serving knights, and a beautiful woman whose decisive intelligence allows her to triumph over daunting odds. An important contribution to our understanding of thirteenth-century romance, this volume of essays will prove of interest to scholars of medieval French literature, history, musicology, and codicology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Jean Renart, active 12th century-13th century. Guillaume de Dole.
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| SUBJECT |
Guillaume de Dole (Jean Renart) fast |
| Subject |
Romances -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- Continental European.
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Romances
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Le roman de la rose ou de Guillaume de Dôle (Jean Renart)
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French Literature.
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Romance Literatures.
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Languages & Literatures.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Durling, Nancy Vine, 1953-
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| LC no. |
96053088 |
| ISBN |
0813022428 |
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9780813022420 |
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