Essays in later medieval French literature
Subtitle: the legacy of Jane H.M. Taylor
By: edited by Rebecca Dixon
Series: Durham modern languages series
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780719081927
Subjects: French literature; History and criticism
Description: "Over the course of a career spanning five decades, Jane Taylor has shown commitment to the rehabilitation of the more neglected aspects of later medieval French literature. Essays in later medieval French literature honours Taylor's contribution to later medieval French studies and acknowledges the debt the subject area owes to her scholarship. The volume brings together original contributions from scholars who have worked alongside Jane in various academic capacities and who have directly or indirectly benefitted from her example. The essays both demonstrate their authors' link to this legacy, and concomitantly underline the vibrancy and breadth of approach which is the hallmark of current later medieval studies. They centre on a number of key issues in the field, including those that have characterised Taylor's work throughout her career: notions of literary self-consciousness and what it means to come after an avatar; issues of intertextuality and the appeal to past models in the creation of a new literary aesthetic or a new literary criticism; and interdisciplinary questions of translation, reworking and continuation. Essays in later medieval French literature seeks not only to illustrate the buoyant state of later medieval French literary studies but also, in so doing, to show how responding to the legacy of an illustrious predecessor has not pejorative but positive consequences."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-193).
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- David Cowling -- Introduction.; title: Coming late, coming after :; title: later medieval French literature and its legacies  -- Rebecca Dixon; title: The legacy of Jane H. M. Taylor  -- Rebecca Dixon -- Coming late. Splitting heirs :; title: wrestling with the Rose in the querelle des femmes  -- Helen J. Swift ;; title: Gérard de Nevers :; title: a Roman de la Violette moralisé? Mise en prose and the revalorisation of the courtly lady in the "cycle de la gageure"  -- Rosalind Brown-Grant ;; title: The (other) worlds of Mabrien  -- Sara Sturm-Maddox ;; title: Saying your prayers :; title: poetic expression of secularism in Villon's Testament  -- Nancy Freeman Regalado ;; title: Le chapperon tousjours dure :; title: the language of ageing desire in the Debat de la damoiselle et de la bourgeouise and Debat du viel et du jeune  -- Emma Cayley -- Coming after. Fictio personae and subtle rewriting in later medieval French poetry / -- Douglas Kelly ;; title: Editing, e-science and exhibitions  -- Peter Ainsworth ;; title: Did Ronsard really read Coquillart?  -- Michael Freeman ;; title: Printing and metrical naturalisation :; title: Jean Molinet's Neuf Preux de Gourmandise  -- Adrian Armstrong ;; title: A question of paternity :; title: Denis Sauvage, Philippe de Commynes and Olivier de la Marche -- Catherine Emerson.