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Froissart Across the Genres
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ISBN13: 9780813016191
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Florida
Published: Dec 20 1998
Pages: 225
Language: English
An impressive collection of essays which attest to the range and variety of Froissart's literary output. . . . [It] ranges not only 'across the genres' but also across the ateliers that subsequently reproduced Froissart's works in manuscript.--Laurence de Looze, University of Western Ontario
Contents
Introduction Writing: History, Fiction, and the Self, by Sara Sturm-Maddox and Donald Maddox
I. Testimony and Textuality in the Chroniques
1. Configuring Transcience: Patterns of Transmission and Transmissibility in the Chroniques (1395-1995), by Peter F. Ainsworth
2. Froissart, Personal Testimony, and the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, by Charles T. Wood
3. Froissart's 1389 Travel to Béarn: A Voyage Narration to the Center of the Chroniques, by George T. Diller
II. Framing Selfhood in Froissart's Poetry
4. Le Joli Buisson de Jonece: Froissart's Mid-Life Crisis, by William W. Kibler
5. Froissart's Poetic Prison: Enclosure as Image and Structure in the Narrative Poetry, by Keith Busby
6. Imitation, Metamorphosis, and Froissart's Use of the Exemplary Modus tractandi, by Douglas Kelly
7. History and Narration in Froissart's Dits: The Case of Le Bleu Chevalier, by Rupert T. Pickens
III. Verse Romance and Poetic Renewal
8. Meliador and the Inception of a New Poetic Sensibility, by Michel Zink
IV. Froissart and His Contemporaries
9. Theory and Practice: The Portrayal of Chivalry in the Prose Lancelot, Geoffroy de Charny, and Froissart, by Elspeth Kennedy
10. Froissart and Chaucer, by John M. Fyler
V. Image and Reception
11. Image and Propaganda: The Illustration of Book I of Froissart's Chroniques, by Laurence Harf-Lancner
Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox are professors of French and Italian at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In collaboration, they have edited six volumes of essays on medieval literature and culture, most recently Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France.
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