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Insights into the lively and influential literary tradition of medieval French literature
This accessible introduction to medieval French literature concentrates on how to enjoy reading this lively and influential literary tradition. Rather than offering a conventional literary history, Simon Gaunt suggests strategies for reading medieval French texts, many of which retell traditional stories. He shows that although many early texts allude to oral sources for these stories, they belong to a sophisticated and witty written culture that revels in knowledge of competing interpretations of the same story and in the intellectual games that writing enables. Retelling the Tale gives those coming to medieval French literature for the first time a clear sense of how stimulating and enjoyable these texts can be.
About the Author
Simon Gaunt is Professor of French Language and Literature, King's College London. He is the author of Troubadours and Irony and Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature.
Retelling the Tale: An Intro to Medieval French Literature (New Readings: Introductions to European Literature and Cultu),Simon Gaunt,Gerald Duckworth & Company,0715629255,European - French,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Medieval,Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject,French,Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
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