Retelling the Tale: An Introduction to Medieval French Literature (New Readings) - Softcover

Gaunt, Simon

 
9780715629253: Retelling the Tale: An Introduction to Medieval French Literature (New Readings)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0715629255 ISBN 13: 9780715629253
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

This accessible introduction to medieval French literature concentrates on how to enjoy reading this lively and influential literary tradition. Rather than offering a conventional literary history, Simon Gaunt suggests strategies for reading medieval French texts, many of which retell traditional stories. A common misconception among students and dated textbooks is that medieval French literature is merely a 'recording' of an oral tradition. This book draws a picture of medieval literature, showing that medieval writers were in fact very aware that they were retelling tales in a new medium.

The author shows that, although many early texts allude to oral sources for these stories, they belong to a sophisticated and witty written culture that revels in knowledge of competing interpretations of the same story and in the intellectual games that writing enables. Retelling the Tale gives those coming to medieval French literature for the first time a clear sense of how stimulating and enjoyable these texts can be.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Simon Gaunt is Professor of French Language and Literature, King's College London. He is the author of Troubadours and Irony and Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury 3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0715629255
ISBN 13 
9780715629253
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
162
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