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Echoes and Reflections

Memory and Memorials in Ovid and Marie de France

By: SunHee Kim Gertz

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Echoes and Reflections

Memory and Memorials in Ovid and Marie de France

By: SunHee Kim Gertz

This study examines tales from The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-18 AD) and from The Lais by the French poet Marie de France (fl. mid-to late twelfth century) to explore a paradox: how can a vibrant, complex, and timeless vision be conveyed in convention-informed and time-bound language? Marie plays against Ovid’s tales to probe the dilemma, thereby echoing Ovid who does the same to the canonical literary monuments of his day. Both poets suggest that poetry can avoid the flattening effect of monumental canonizing not only by the creative use of literary echoes, but also by shifting perspectives on the conventional, which in turn, can encourage readers to see reflections of many stories in any given tale. Ovid and Marie suggest and encourage in this manner by presenting literary love’s topoi and traditional lovers from a variety of metaliterary perspectives, thereby eliciting active readerly memory as well as providing the opportunity to see the conventional afresh, activity that allows even canonical texts to become living memorials.

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9004485953

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9789004485952

Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580

By: Sunhee Kim Gertz

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Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580

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In the 250 years introduced here, literature reflects key transitions, embedded as it is in far-reaching political, religious, and socio-economic transformations. This volume tracks some of the resulting tensions in various genres, especially those that re-integrate or respond to the traditional. Such literature is examined by using the tools of rhetoric and semiotics, interpreting from the author-audience axis and focusing on dissonant markers in canonical as well as in lesser well-known narratives. SunHee Kim Gertz looks at the history and culture of the era in order to contextualize the work she examines, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,The Book of Margery Kempe, Le Morte D'Arthur and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Offering a refreshing new perspective on a period of rich literary output, that students often find difficult to engage, this will prove a welcome guide and critical companion.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0333721985

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9780333721988

Visual Power and Fame in René d'Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince

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Visual Power and Fame in René d'Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince

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Reading semiotically against the backdrop of medieval mirrors of princes, Arthurian narratives, and chronicles, this study examines how René d’Anjou (1409-1480), Geoffrey Chaucer’s House of Fame (ca. 1375-1380), and Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) explore fame’s visual power. While very different in approach, all three individuals reject the classical suggestion that fame is bestowed and understand that particularly in positions of leadership, it is necessary to communicate effectively with audiences in order to secure fame. This sweeping study sheds light on fame’s intoxicating but deceptively simple promise of elite glory.

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Echoes and Reflections

Memory and Memorials in Ovid and Marie de France

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Echoes and Reflections

Echoes and Reflections

Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580

Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580

Visual Power and Fame in René d'Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince

Visual Power and Fame in René d'Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince

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