The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature

✍ Scribed by Virginie Green

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 270
• Series: Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Thirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. In Medieval French Literature there are no Authors, only authorsÂ--and enigmas. The essays in this volume examine both well-known authorial figures such as Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, Jean Froissart, Christine de Pizan, and lesser-known ones like Gerbert de Montreuil, Gautier de Coincy, Baudoin Butor, or David Aubert. This book will appeal to all those who are interested in theoretical approaches to authorship. For specialists it delivers an assessment of current theoretical and methodological issues in medieval studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
1 Authorial Relays: Continuing Chrétien’s Conte du Graal......Page 28
2 Borrowing, Citation, and Authorship in Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame......Page 44
3 The Roman de la Rose as a Möbius Strip (On Interpretation)......Page 76
4 The Medieval “Author”: An Idea Whose Time Hadn’t Come?......Page 92
5 From One Mask to Another: The Trials and Tribulations of an Author of Romance at the Time of Perceforest......Page 118
6 The Experiencing Self and the Narrating Self in Medieval French Chronicles......Page 132
7 Neutrality Affects: Froissart and the Practice of Historiographic Authorship......Page 152
8 Portraits of Authors at the End of the Middle Ages: Tombs in Majesty and Carnivalesque Epitaphs......Page 172
9 Frontally and in Profile: The Identifying Gesture of the Late Medieval Author......Page 188
10 Medieval Bestsellers in the Age of Print: Melusine and Olivier de Castille......Page 204
11 What Happened to Medievalists after the Death of the Author?......Page 220
Bibliography......Page 244
A......Page 260
C......Page 261
D......Page 262
G......Page 263
J......Page 264
L......Page 265
N......Page 266
P......Page 267
R......Page 268
U......Page 269
Z......Page 270