Transforming Tales - Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval French Literature

Zusatztext this book is a pleasure to read and, by uniting physical and textual changes, metamorphoses and repetitions in one place, it offers new ways to approach not only the medieval body but also the medieval text itself so often written, as Griffin reminds us, on skin. Informationen zum Autor After a comprehensive education in Wiltshire, Miranda Griffin completed her undergraduate and graduate education at Cambridge. She has taught in Cambridge, London, and Oxford; and has been a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge since 2007. Her first book, The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle was published by Legenda in 2005. Klappentext Transforming Tales examines the idea of bodily transformation in French literature composed between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries, exploring the ways in which stories of transformation enable an insight into medieval ideas about humanity and arguing that metamorphosis can be read as a metaphor for rewriting in the Middle Ages. Zusammenfassung Transforming Tales examines the idea of bodily transformation in French literature composed between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries, exploring the ways in which stories of transformation enable an insight into medieval ideas about humanity and arguing that metamorphosis can be read as a metaphor for rewriting in the Middle Ages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Rewriting Metamorphosis 1: Dismembering Ovid 2: Reflecting on Echo 3: The Beast Without 4: Sex and the Serpent 5: Now you see him . . . : The Metamorphoses of Merlin Conclusion: The Stuff that Dreams are Made on

Product details

• Authors: Miranda Griffin, Miranda (College Lecturer and Fellow Griffin, Griffin Miranda
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2015
• EAN: 9780199686988
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968698-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; History, France, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval