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Froissart
Across the Genres
by Donald Maddox
and Sara Sturm-Maddox
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Offering a new and comprehensive assessment of the works of Jean Froissart, one of the most engaging and prolific authors of the
14th century, this collection examines his writings across the
broad spectrum of his literary and historical production. Froissart, an active participant in the political and literary
life of his age, is regarded as one of its great synthesizing
minds. These essays by an international array of scholars,
including editors and translators of Froissart and many of his
prominent critics, challenge unduly general views of his
attitudes as a poet, writer, and historian grappling with the
major sociopolitical and cultural issues of his turbulent and
paradoxical period. Collectively addressing his work "across
the genres," they offer new and nuanced perceptions of his
engagement in the writing of selfhood, fiction, and history.
Contents
Introduction Writing: History, Fiction, and the Self, by Sara
Sturm-Maddox and Donald Maddox
I. Testimony and Textuality in the Chroniques
1. Configuring Transcience: Patterns of Transmission and
Transmissibility in the Chroniques (1395-1995), by Peter F.
Ainsworth
2. Froissart, Personal Testimony, and the Peasants' Revolt of
1381, by Charles T. Wood
3. Froissart's 1389 Travel to Béarn: A Voyage Narration to the
Center of the Chroniques, by George T. Diller
II. Framing Selfhood in Froissart's Poetry
4. Le Joli Buisson de Jonece: Froissart's Mid-Life
Crisis, by William W. Kibler
5. Froissart's Poetic Prison: Enclosure as Image and Structure in
the Narrative Poetry, by Keith Busby
6. Imitation, Metamorphosis, and Froissart's Use of the Exemplary
Modus tractandi, by Douglas Kelly
7. History and Narration in Froissart's Dits: The Case
of Le Bleu Chevalier, by Rupert T. Pickens
III. Verse Romance and Poetic Renewal
8. Meliador and the Inception of a New Poetic
Sensibility, by Michel Zink
IV. Froissart and His Contemporaries
9. Theory and Practice: The Portrayal of Chivalry in the Prose
Lancelot, Geoffroy de Charny, and Froissart, by Elspeth Kennedy
10. Froissart and Chaucer, by John M. Fyler
V. Image and Reception
11. Image and Propaganda: The Illustration of Book I of
Froissart's Chroniques, by Laurence Harf-Lancner
Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox are
professors of French and Italian at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. In collaboration, they have edited six
volumes of essays on medieval literature and culture, most
recently Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late
Medieval France.
1998. 224
pp. 6 X 9.
12
b&w illustrations, notes, index.
ISBN
0-8130-1619-3
Cloth, $55.00s
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"An impressive collection of essays
which attest to the range and variety of Froissart’s
literary output. . . . [It] ranges not only ‘across the
genres’ but also across the ateliers that subsequently
reproduced Froissart’s works in manuscript."--Laurence
de Looze, University of Western Ontario
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