Mythology in French Literature
Author: Phillip Crant
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9789051834628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Phillip Crant
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9789051834628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0804728100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 moralisé, 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.
Author: Keith Aspley
Publisher: MHRA
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780900547850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-03-12
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0809071940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--
Author: Susanna Phillippo
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783034308519
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. The text explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptations, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators and earlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceived of themselves as doing.
Author: Joël Schmidt
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-03-12
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0809071940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--
Author: Claude Calame
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-05-28
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0521888581
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Argues that the meaning of Greek myths can only be studied according to their artistic forms of expression. Using myths such as those of Persephone, Bellerophon, Helen and Teiresias, Claude Calame surveys Greek mythology as a category inseparable from the literature in which so much of it is found.
Author: Phillipa Hardman
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1843844729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Roland to Caxton.