Thirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. The essays in this volume create a prism through which to understand medieval authorship as a process and the medieval author as an agency in the making.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2006

ISBN

9781403983459

Topic

Literatur

Subtopic

Theorie der Literaturkritik

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
1 Authorial Relays: Continuing Chrétien’s Conte du Graal
2 Borrowing, Citation, and Authorship in Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame
3 The Roman de la Rose as a Möbius Strip (On Interpretation)
4 The Medieval “Author”: An Idea Whose Time Hadn’t Come?
5 From One Mask to Another: The Trials and Tribulations of an Author of Romance at the Time of Perceforest
6 The Experiencing Self and the Narrating Self in Medieval French Chronicles
7 Neutrality Affects: Froissart and the Practice of Historiographic Authorship
8 Portraits of Authors at the End of the Middle Ages: Tombs in Majesty and Carnivalesque Epitaphs
9 Frontally and in Profile: The Identifying Gesture of the Late Medieval Author
10 Medieval Bestsellers in the Age of Print: Melusine and Olivier de Castille
11 What Happened to Medievalists after the Death of the Author?
Bibliography
Index