Telling the Story in the Middle Ages - Essays in Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz

New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.

List of contents

Introduction
'Of Aunters They Began to Tell': Informal Story in Medieval England and Modern America - Linda Marie Zaerr
The Storyteller's Verbal Jonglerie in 'Renart jongleur' - Marilyn Lawrence
Plusurs en ai oïz conter: Performance and the Dramatic Poetics of Voice in the Lais of Marie de France - Simonetta Cochis
Who Tells the Stories of Poetry? Villon and his Readers - Nancy Freeman Regalado
The Audience in the Story: Novices Respond to History in Gautier de Coinci's Chasteé as nonains - Kathryn A. Duys
Effet de parlé and Effet d'écrit: The Authorial Strategies of Medieval French Historians - Cristian Bratu
Or, Entendez!: Jacques Tahureau and the Staging of the Storytelling Scene - Kathleen A. Loysen
Telling the Story of the Christ Child: Text and Image in Two Fourteenth-Century Manuscripts - Maureen Boulton
Authorizing the Story: Guillaume de Machaut as Doctor of Love - Joyce Coleman
Retelling the Story: Intertextuality, Sacred and Profane, in the Late Roman Legend of St Eugenia - E. Gordon Whatley
Ruodlieb and Romance in Latin: Audience and Authorship - Elizabeth Archibald
Turner a pru: Conversion and Translation in the Vie de seint Clement - Laurie Postlewate
Stories for the King: Narration and Authority in the 'Crusade Compilation' of Philippe VI of France (London, British Library, Royal 19.D.i) - Mark Cruse
Le Berceau de la littérature française: Medieval Literature as Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century France - Elizabeth Emery
Retelling the Old Story - Samuel N. Rosenberg

About the author

Kathryn A. Duys, Elizabeth Emery, Laurie Postlewate

Product details

• Authors: Cristian Bratu, Kathryn A. Duys, Elizabeth Emery, Kathryn Kathryn Duys, Laurie Postlewate, E Gordon Whatley
• Assisted by: Kathryn A. Duys (Editor), Elizabeth Emery (Editor), Elizabeth (Customer) Emery (Editor), Kathryn Kathryn Duys (Editor), Kathryn (Person) Kathryn Duys (Editor), Laurie Postlewate (Editor), Laurie (Customer) Postlewate (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2015
• EAN: 9781843843917
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-391-7
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 647 g
• Series: Gallica; Gallica
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Französisch, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literature - Classics / Criticism