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Essays in Later Medieval French Literature: The Legacy of Jane H. M. Taylor (Durham Modern Languages Series) - Hardcover

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9780719081927: Essays in Later Medieval French Literature: The Legacy of Jane H. M. Taylor (Durham Modern Languages Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719081920 ISBN 13: 9780719081927
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Over the course of a career spanning five decades, Jane Taylor has shown a commitment to the rehabilitation of the more neglected aspects of later medieval French literature. This volume brings together original contributions from scholars who have worked alongside Taylor and directly or indirectly benefitted from her example. The chapters 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. The essays in the collection centre on a number of key issues in the field: 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 in broader terms responding to the legacy of an illustrious predecessor has not pejorative but positive consequences. -- .

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About the Author

Rebecca Dixon is Lecturer in the Department of French, University of Manchester -- .

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Over the course of a career spanning five decades, Jane Taylor has shown a commitment to the rehabilitation of the more neglected aspects of later medieval French literature. This volume brings together original contributions from scholars who have worked alongside Taylor and directly or indirectly benefitted from her example. The chapters 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. The essays in the collection centre on a number of key issues in the field: 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 in broader terms responding to the legacy of an illustrious predecessor has not pejorative but positive consequences.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0719081920
ISBN 13 
9780719081927
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
232
Editor
Dixon Rebecca