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Jean Renart and
the Art of Romance
Essays on
Guillaume de Dole
by Nancy Vine Durling
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In this first volume of critical essays ever devoted to Jean
Renart’s work, contributors draw on political and social
history, women’s studies, translation theory, musicology,
and literary theory to illuminate Jean’s remarkable
contribution to the highly complex genre of courtly romance.
An extraordinary blend of realism and high artifice, unique in
its combined use of songs and narrative, Jean Renart and the
Art of Romance offers zestful dalliances in high places,
handsome but self-serving knights, and a beautiful woman whose
decisive intelligence allows her to triumph over daunting odds.
An important contribution to our understanding of 13th-century
romance, this volume of essays will prove of interest to scholars
of medieval French literature, history, musicology, and codicology.
CONTENTS
Introduction, by Nancy Vine Durling
Text and Context
1. The Uses of Embroidery in the Romances of Jean Renart: Gender,
History, Textuality, by Nancy A. Jones
2. "Once there was an emperor . . .": A Political
Reading of the Romances of Jean Renart, by John W. Baldwin
The Language of Lyric and the Language of Romance
3. Lyric Insertions and the Reversal of Romance Conventions in
Jean Renart's Roman de la rose or Guillaume de Dole,
by Maureen Barry McCann Boulton
4. Suspension and Fall: The Fragmentation and Linkage of Lyric
Insertions in Le roman de la rose (Guillaume de Dole) and
Le roman de la violette by Michel Zink
5. Jean Renart's Expanded Text: Lïenor and the Lyrics of Guillaume
de Dole by Regina Psaki
6. On the Untranslatable Surface of Guillaume de Dole by
Patricia Terry
Music and Performance
7. Jean Renart and Medieval Song, by Hendrik van der Werf
Appendix 1: "Bele Aeliz": A Comparison of Lecoy and
Gennrich Editions
Appendix 2: Survey of Musical References
Appendix 3: Melodies
Nancy Vine Durling is co-translator, with
Patricia Terry, of The Romance of the Rose, or Guillaume de
Dole by Jean Renart (English translation with critical notes
and introduction, 1993).
1997. 256 pp. 6 X 9.
5 b&w photographs,
notes, bibliography, appendixes, index, 13 musical
examples.
ISBN 0-8130-1495-6
Cloth, $59.95
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"This volume serves both as an excellent general introduction to Jean Renart's work and to his Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole in particular, and as an interesting specialized collection of studies by some of the leading Jean Renart
scholars. An excellent introduction to Jean Renart's Guillaume de Dole, and one that will suggest new directions of research to those who already know the text."--
The Medieval Review
"Excellent.
. . . Offers both a valuable introduction to the romance for
general readers while at the same time serving substantial fare
to a specialized public."--Matilda T. Bruckner, Boston
College
"Groundbreaking discussions of a recently
‘discovered,’ extraordinary 13th-century literary
figure. . . . Splendid essays from highly respected scholars.
"--Harriet Spiegel, California State University, Chico
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