Table Of ContentTHE MEDIEVAL AUTHOR
IN MEDIEVAL FRENCH
LITERATURE
STUDIES IN ARTHURIAN AND
COURTLY CULTURES
The dynamic field of Arthurian Studies is the subject for this book
series, Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures, which explores the
great variety of literary and cultural expression inspired by the lore of
King Arthur, the Round Table, and the Grail. In forms that range
from medieval chronicles to popular films, from chivalric romances
to contemporary comics, from magic realism to feminist fantasy—and
from the sixth through the twenty-first centuries—few literary subjects
provide such fertile ground for cultural elaboration. Including works in
literary criticism, cultural studies, and history, Studies in Arthurian and
Courtly Cultures highlights the most significant new Arthurian Studies.
Bonnie Wheeler,Southern Methodist University
Series Editor
Editorial Board:
James Carley,York University
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen,George Washington University
Virginie Greene,Harvard University
Siân Echard,University of British Columbia
Sharon Kinoshita,University of California,Santa Cruz
Alan Lupack,University of Rochester
Andrew Lynch,University of Western Australia
THE MEDIEVAL AUTHOR
IN MEDIEVAL FRENCH
LITERATURE
Edited by
Virginie Greene
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xi
Introduction 1
Virginie Greene
1. Authorial Relays:Continuing
Chrétien’s Conte du Graal 13
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
2. Borrowing,Citation,and Authorship
in Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame 29
Margaret Switten
3. The Roman de la Roseas a Möbius
Strip (On Interpretation) 61
Alexandre Leupin
4. The Medieval “Author”:An Idea
Whose Time Hadn’t Come? 77
Stephen G.Nichols
5. From One Mask to Another:The Trials and Tribulations
of an Author of Romance at the Time of Perceforest 103
Anne Berthelot (translated by Darla Gervais)
6. The Experiencing Self and the
Narrating Self in Medieval French Chronicles 117
Sophie Marnette
7. Neutrality Affects:Froissart and
the Practice of Historiographic Authorship 137
Zrinka Stahuljak
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8. Portraits of Authors at the End of the Middle Ages:
Tombs in Majesty and Carnivalesque Epitaphs 157
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (translated by Darla Gervais)
9. Frontally and in Profile:The Identifying Gesture of the
Late Medieval Author 173
Danielle Bohler (translated by Lia Brozgal)
10. Medieval Bestsellers in the Age of Print:Melusineand
Olivier de Castille 189
Ana Pairet
11. What Happened to Medievalists
after the Death of the Author? 205
Virginie Greene
Bibliography 229
Index 245
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editor of this volume would like to thank Christie McDonald for
supporting this project.Without her gentle and firm encouragement,it
would not have been undertaken.Many thanks to Eugene Vance for his
generous support and productive critique,to Judith Ryan for her advice at
a crucial moment,to Lia Brozgal and Darla Gervais for their translations,to
Lia Brozgal, Stefanie Goyette, and Irit Kleiman for their assistance in
preparing this volume,to Pierre-Yves Cachard for his help in obtaining the
cover illustration,and to Farideh Koohi-Kamali,Melissa Nosal,and Julia
Cohen for their diligent editorial work.To Bonnie Wheeler I owe a special
“thank you,” not only for her intellectual and editorial support for this
project,but also for the attention she has given now for many years to my
progress as a medievalist.To use her laconic style:“Bonnie,thanks.”To all the
contributors of this volume,I also owe a special debt of gratitude:Plus doi
que rendre ne porroie.
