Mythology in French Literature
Author | : Phillip Crant |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789051834628 |
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Author | : Phillip Crant |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789051834628 |
Author | : Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804728100 |
This book explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks: What were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Which techniques did poets use to integrate classical subject matter into their own texts? Was a special interpretive tradition created for vernacular texts? In Chapter 1, the author shows how Latin epic texts were reoriented for political purposes in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm, gaining new depth by the addition of Ovidian elements that evoked threats of a disorder different from the struggles of classical epic. Chapter 2 analyzes the complex use of myth in the thirteenth-century Roman de la Rose, which offers new conjunctions and interpretations of myths related to language, artistic expression, and sexuality. Chapter 3 focuses on the interpretive techniques and vocabulary of the fourteenth-century Ovide moralisé, such as "allegory," "fable," and istoire, arguing that the Christianization of the Metamorphoses created a "new Ovid" in the form of a fourteenth-century friar. Chapter 4 reveals that, although Guillaume de Machaut questioned the usefulness of mythic fables, he turned to them to invoke artistic consolation and ward off threats to his poetic voice. It also describes how Jean Froissart produced new myths by combining existing fables with newly invented elements in an attempt to dramatize the poetic creativity of his age. Finally, Chapter 5 demonstrates how Christine de Pizan offered the full range of medieval possibilities for myth: playing with the mythographic tradition, inscribing herself into Ovidian myths, offering historical explanations, rewriting myths from a pro-woman stance, and finally creating mythic universes of her own.
Author | : Roland Barthes |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0809071940 |
"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--
Author | : Susanna Phillippo |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : French drama |
ISBN | : 9783034308519 |
This book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. The text explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptations, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators and earlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceived of themselves as doing.
Author | : Melissa Panek |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443838748 |
Michel Tournier defines the supreme mission of a writer to be the creation of a mythology which allows for interaction with his readers, who seem to be losing their critical faculties in our contemporary, postmodern world dominated by consumption and dizzying technological advances. Our contemporary society has changed due to the end of the modern era with its reigning ideologies. Collapsing after the atrocities of the Second World War, Modernity and the artistic and literary reactions referred to as modernism, have likewise been transformed. Myth continues to represent the collectivity of human existence, yet, in the short stories and novels of Michel Tournier, myth represents the collapse of the all-encompassing ideologies inherent to the Modern era. The grand narratives of Modernity such as Christianity and Man’s reason have been deconstructed in the postmodern era. The mythology of Michel Tournier expresses these trends towards the dissolution of Modernity and creates individual, mini narratives which emphasize the particularity of individual existence. Tournier takes established mythical models rooted in Christianity, fables and legends of Western Civilization and re-contextualizes them. Through a semiotic reworking of core binary pairs of a myth, Tournier creates a third-order level of representation which modifies the mythical model. The works of le Roi des Aulnes, Gilles et Jeanne, and Vendredi are illustrious of this third-order level of signification. According to Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, the structural make-up of myth transforms established meanings according to the dominant cultural code. Barthes’ semiological study of myth reveals the levels of representation through which myth creates meaning. Myth builds upon the denotative first-order level of language and through a connotative process, creates a second-order level. This connotative process does not end on this second-order, for in the writings of Tournier, this semiological process is continued to a third-order which re-contextualizes the myth again. Tournier adapts myth to the unique traits of the postmodern era including deconstruction and playfulness by allowing the reader to provide the context of the story. As such we, the reader, take the place as author of our own individual mythology.
Author | : Robert Morrissey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Part 1 of the book explores a fundamental cycle in the history of Charlemagne's representation, beginning shortly after the great emperor's death and continuing to the end of the sixteenth century. Part 2 discusses the remythologizing of Charlemagne in Renaissance and Reformation France through the late nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Ramon Guthrie |
Publisher | : New York : Harcourt, Brace |
Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : French literature |
ISBN | : |
This anthology is intended to meet the needs of students of widely varied linguistic and literary training. Specifically the editors have endeavored to make the book equally serviceable for use in three typical courses with which they are familiar: a large survey course for freshmen with three years of high-school French, a 19th century course for more advanced students, and a course in the 20th century and its background designed for upper classmen of outstanding ability. The aim of the anthology is less to provide a prescribed set of readings than to offer a wide choice of material from whcih selections may be made to fit the requirements of any particular course.
Author | : Claude Calame |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2009-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521888581 |
Argues that the meaning of Greek myths can only be studied according to their artistic forms of expression. Using myths such as those of Persephone, Bellerophon, Helen and Teiresias, Claude Calame surveys Greek mythology as a category inseparable from the literature in which so much of it is found.