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The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

By: Sylvia Huot

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The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

By: Sylvia Huot

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.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268081832

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9780268081836

Madness in Medieval French Literature

Identities Found and Lost

By: Sylvia Huot

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Madness in Medieval French Literature

Identities Found and Lost

By: Sylvia Huot

Written by one of the leading critics in medieval studies, this new book explores the representations of madness in medieval French literature. Drawing on a range of modern psychoanalytic theories and an impressive range of texts from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, Sylvia Huot focuses on the relationship between madness and identity, both personal and collective, and demonstrates the cultural significance of madness in the Middle Ages.

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252

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199252122

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9780199252121

From Song to Book

The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry

By: Sylvia Huot

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The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry

By: Sylvia Huot

As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetics. In this generously illustrated volume, Huot examines manuscript texts both from the performance-oriented lyric tradition of chanson courtoise, or courtly love lyric, and from the self-consciously literary tradition of Old French narrative poetry. She demonstrates that the evolution of the lyrical romance and dit, narrative poems which incorporate thematic and rhetorical elements of the lyric, was responsible for a progressive redefinition of lyric poetry as a written medium and the emergence of an explicitly written literary tradition uniting lyric and narrative poetics. Huot first investigates the nature of the vernacular book in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, analyzing organization, page layout, rubrication, and illumination in a series of manuscripts. She then describes the relationship between poetics and manuscript format in specific texts, including works by widely read medieval authors such as Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, and Guillaume de Machaut, as well as by lesser-known writers including Nicole de Margival and Watriquet de Couvin. Huot focuses on the writers' characteristic modifications of lyric poetics; their use of writing and performance as theme; their treatment of the poet as singer or writer; and of the lady as implied reader or listener; and the ways in which these features of the text were elaborated by scribes and illuminators. Her readings reveal how medieval poets and book-makers conceived their common project, and how they distinguished their respective roles.

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531

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Cornell University Press

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1501746685

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Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

Cultural Identities and Hybridities

By: Sylvia Huot

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Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

Cultural Identities and Hybridities

By: Sylvia Huot

This vast romance chronicles an imaginary era of pre-Arthurian British history when Britain was ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander the Great. Its story of cultural rise, decline, and regeneration offers an exploration of medieval ideas about ethnic and cultural conflict and fusion, identity and hybridity.

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244

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Boydell & Brewer

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1843841045

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Madness in Medieval French Literature

Identities Found and Lost

By: Sylvia Huot

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Identities Found and Lost

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From Song to Book

The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry

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The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry

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Cornell University Press

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1501746677

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Outsiders

The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

By: Sylvia Huot

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The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet

The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony

By: Sylvia Huot

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The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony

By: Sylvia Huot

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.

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Stanford University Press

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0804727171

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Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet

The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony

By: Sylvia Huot

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The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony

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Kenya

By: Sylvia McNair,Lynne Mansure

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Kenya

By: Sylvia McNair,Lynne Mansure

A resource of facts and figures relating to Kenya.

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144

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Children's Press(CT)

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0516210785

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9780516210780

Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

Cultural Identities and Hybridities

By: Sylvia Huot

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Cultural Identities and Hybridities

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Boydell & Brewer

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Outsiders

Outsiders

Madness in Medieval French Literature

Madness in Medieval French Literature

From Song to Book

From Song to Book

Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

Madness in Medieval French Literature

Madness in Medieval French Literature

From Song to Book

From Song to Book

Outsiders

Outsiders

Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet

Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet

Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet

Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet

Kenya

Kenya

Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

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