Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature

Sharon Kinoshita

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2006

Medieval Boundaries

Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature

Sharon Kinoshita

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202489

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About this book

"Kinoshita has produced a book of major importance. Her command of the Francophone Middle Ages should exert an important critical influence on the greater field of Middle English and should also be recognized as an important contribution to the prehistory of postcolonial studies."—David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania

Author / Editor information

Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Reviews

"I highly recommend this timely study as one of the most innovative, cohesive, and ambitious I have read—one that is capable of reinvigorating medieval literary studies in the Romance languages at the undergraduate and graduate level and will be a de rigueur citation in any future bibliography of the period."—The Medieval Review

"Kinoshita has produced a book of major importance. Her command of the Francophone Middle Ages should exert an important critical influence on the greater field of Middle English and should also be recognized as an important contribution to the prehistory of postcolonial studies."—David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania

"From beginning to end, Kinoshita drives home her innovative thesis: that the formation of French literary texts between 1150 and 1225 cannot adequately be understood without reference to various types of cross-cultural contact between French-speaking nobles and those perceived by them as cultural, religious, and linguistic 'others.'"—E. Jane Burns, University of North Carolina

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. EPIC REVISIONS
1. “Pagans Are Wrong and Christians Are Right” From Parias to Crusade in the Chanson de Roland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. The Politics of Courtly Love La Prise d'Orange and the Conversion of the Saracen QJ4een Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
PART II. ROMANCES OF ASSIMILATION
3. “In the Beginning Was the Road” Floire et Blancheflor in the Medieval Mediterranean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
4. Colonial Possessions Wales and the Anglo-Norman Imaginary in the Lais of Marie de France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
PART III. CRISIS AND CHANGE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
5. Brave New Worlds Robert de Clari’s La Conquête de Constantinople Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
6. The Romance of MiscegeNation Negotiating Identities in La Pille du comte de Pontieu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
7. Uncivil Wars Imagining Community in La Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 11 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies

eBook

Published: March 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780812202489