Sandra Malicote

Image and Imagination

Picturing the Old French Epic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary study of word and image in the Old French chanson de geste examines the relationship between illumination and epic narrative constructed by the medieval understanding of the imagination. The study focuses on the epic cycle "the geste of Saint Gille," including Aiol and Elie de Saint Gille.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9780761848325
• ISBN-10: 0761848320
• Artikelnr.: 27429233

Autorenporträt

Sandra Malicote (Ph.D., Indiana University) is a professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and formerly chaired the Humanities Program and the Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Her articles have appeared in Romania, Romanic Review, Olifant, (Kentucky) Romance Quarterly, French Review and Contemporary French Civilization. She is completing a new critical edition (with A. Richard Hartman) of the Old French epic cycle the "geste de Saint Gille."

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 List of Figures Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1: Aiol
Illunination
and the Poetics of the Epic Chapter 5 2: The Illuminated Geste de Saint Gille
Pictor and the Past Chapter 6 3: Parody
Illunimation
and Genre Renewal Chapter 7 4: Roman
Estoire
Exemplum: Illumination of Epic Compilation Chapter 8 5: Illuminating the Old French Epic: Two Late Thirteenth-Century Franco-Flemish Examples Chapter 9 Figures Chapter 10 Selected Bibliography Chapter 11 Index