The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England.

Chance, Jane (ed.):

ISBN 10: 081300974X / ISBN 13: 9780813009742

Published by Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1990

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XI, 336 p. Good and clean copy without markings. - Contents Preface ix Introduction The Medieval "Apology for Poetry": Fabulous Narrative and Stories of the Gods 3 Jane Chance 1. Early France: The Mythographer and the Poet Jeanne A. Nightingale From Mirror to Metamorphosis: Echoes of Ovid's Narcissus in Chrétien's Erec et Enide 47 Sources, Nature, and Influence of the Ovidius Moralizatus of Pierre Bersuire 83 William D. Reynolds Christine de Pizan as Chivalric Mythographer: L'Epistre Othea 100 Judith L. Kellogg Christine de Pizan and the Judgment of Paris: A Court Poet's Use of Mythographic Tradition 125 Margaret J. Ehrhart II. Early England: Chaucer and the Mythographers Pallas Athena and the Threefold Choice in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde 159 Patricia R. Orr Chaucer's Zephirus: Dante's Zefiro, St. Dominic, and the Idea of the General Prologue 177 Jane Chance Mercury in the Garden: Mythographical Methods in the Merchant's Tale and Decameron 7.9 199 Janet Levarie Smarr From Knossos to Knight's Tale: The Changing Face of Chaucer's Theseus 215 Melvin Storm III. Renaissance England: Shakespeare and the Mythographers The Comedy of Love: The Medieval Venus and Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis 235 Hercules in the Mind: Mythographic Tradition and the References in Hamlet 246 Sandys, Ovid, and Female Chastity: The Encyclopedic Mythographer as Moralist 257 Theodore L. Steinberg George D. Economou Deborah D. Rubin IV. Bibliographic Epilogue Eleven Unpublished Commentaries on Ovid's Metamorphoses and Two Other Texts of Mythographic Interest: Some Comments on a Bibliography 281 Judson Boyce Allen Bibliography 291 Contributors 317 Index. ISBN 9780813009742 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 715.

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• Title: The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England.
• Publisher: Gainesville: University Press of Florida
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081300974X
• ISBN 13: 9780813009742
• Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 715 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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"An important collection on an area essential to understanding the intellectual foundations and literary practices of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . . . invaluable not only for its insights into the individual works of authors as diverse as John Sandys and Chrétien de Troyes, but also for the light shed on medieval and Renaissance ways of appropriating the texts and legends of the classical world. Despite its breadth of inquiry, Professor Chance’s volume demonstrates a unity and focus often lacking in collections of this sort."—Julian Wasserman, Loyola University

 

"This collection of essays will help both medievalists and Renaissance scholars to collect and focus their energies on one of the most neglected but truly important fields in our discipline; it should, I think, contribute significantly to our ongoing recovery of the vernacular tradition in Western Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. No serious medievalist or Renaissance scholar can afford not to have this book."—R. A. Shoaf, University of Florida

 

Jane Chance, professor of English at Rice University, is author or editor of several books including Medieval Mythography, and Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages.