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  • - The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance
    av Sylvia Huot
    2 204,-

    Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they are portrayed as brute savages or as tyrannical pagan lords, giants serve as a limit against which the chivalric hero can measure himself. In Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance, Sylvia Huot argues that the presence of giants allows for fantasies of ethnic and cultural conflict and conquest, and for the presentation-and suppression-of alternative narrative and historical trajectories that might have made Arthurian Britain a very different place. Focusing on medieval French prose romance and drawing on aspects of postcolonial theory, Huot examines the role of giants in constructions of race, class, gender, and human subjectivity. She selects for study the well-known prose Lancelot and the prose Tristan, as well as the lesser known Perceforest, Le Conte du papegau, Guiron le Courtois, and Des Grantz Geants. By asking to what extent views of giants in Arthurian romance respond to questions that concern twenty-first-century readers, Huot demonstrates the usefulness of current theoretical concepts and the issues they raise for rethinking medieval literature from a modern perspective.

  • - The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry
    av Sylvia Huot
    240,-

    Sylvia Huot points out the theatrical, performative quality of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century French illuminated manuscripts.

  • - The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony
    av Sylvia Huot
    757,-

    This book focuses on the literary artistry of the texts of Old French and bilingual motets, notably the special feature of motets that distinguished them from other medieval lyric forms: the phenomenon of polytextuality.

  • - Poetry, Knowledge and Desire in the "Roman De La Rose"
    av Sylvia Huot
    582 - 1 886,-

    The Roman de la Rose explicitly offers an 'art of love', while also repeatedly asserting that the experience of love is impossible to put into words.

  • - Interpretation, Reception, Manuscript Transmission
    av Sylvia Huot
    565,-

    The Romance of the Rose was one of the most important and influential works of medieval vernacular literature. In this book, Sylvia Huot investigates how medieval readers understood the text, assessing the evidence to be found in well over 200 surviving manuscripts.

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