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Boydell Press Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism Between Ethics and Morality

Name: Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism Between Ethics and Morality
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This is a study of four colossal medieval works - the Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange, the Vulgate Cycle, the Prose Tristan and the Roman de Renart - that are normally considered separately. By placing them side-by-side for analysis, Luke Sunderland is able to argue for an aesthetic of cyclicity that cuts across genre. He combines detailed readings of the narrative infrastructure of each cycle with attention to the shifts and transformations that come with successive acts of rewriting. Old French Narrative Cycles focuses in particular on revisions and controversies around heroic figures, arguing that competition between alternative heroes within these texts makes them a discourse on heroism. Using a theoretical framework deriving from Lacanian psychoanalysis, the author reveals anxieties surrounding the hero's relationship to the "good": the hero oscillates between support for moral ideals and subversive assertions of freedom that can lead to evil and death. Ultimately, it is contended that the instability of the hero as conduit for morality produces textual confusion and generates the myriad differing versions of these vast and perplexing works. Review Arguing for telling linkages between medieval text and modern theory, Sunderland's work affirms that in cycles, as in the investigation of cyclic texts by means of recent critical theory, what came before can be understood by means of what has developed later, which in turn may find an apt expression of itself in what came before. ― ARTHURIANA [This] insightful analysis ofthe narrative and formal issues at stake ... opens new routes in the exploration and understanding of the complex nature of medieval textuality. ― MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW [An] insightful analysis of the narrative and formal issues at stake in these four Old French cycles [...] opens new routes in the exploration and understanding of the complex nature of medieval textuality. ― MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW A useful contribution to the current scholarship on medieval books and textual transmission. ― SPECULUM About the Author LUKE SUNDERLAND is Research Fellow in French at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

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Brand: Boydell Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1843842203
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > France
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 April 2010
Listed Since: 13 August 2009

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