The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England - Hardcover

The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. XI, 336 p. Good and clean copy without markings. - Contents Preface ix Introduction The Medieval "Apology for Poetry": Fabulous Narrative and Stories of the Gods 3 Jane Chance 1. Early France: The Mythographer and the Poet Jeanne A. Nightingale From Mirror to Metamorphosis: Echoes of Ovid's Narcissus in Chrétien's Erec et Enide 47 Sources, Nature, and Influence of the Ovidius Moralizatus of Pierre Bersuire 83 William D. Reynolds Christine de Pizan as Chivalric Mythographer: L'Epistre Othea 100 Judith L. Kellogg Christine de Pizan and the Judgment of Paris: A Court Poet's Use of Mythographic Tradition 125 Margaret J. Ehrhart II. Early England: Chaucer and the Mythographers Pallas Athena and the Threefold Choice in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde 159 Patricia R. Orr Chaucer's Zephirus: Dante's Zefiro, St. Dominic, and the Idea of the General Prologue 177 Jane Chance Mercury in the Garden: Mythographical Methods in the Merchant's Tale and Decameron 7.9 199 Janet Levarie Smarr From Knossos to Knight's Tale: The Changing Face of Chaucer's Theseus 215 Melvin Storm III. Renaissance England: Shakespeare and the Mythographers The Comedy of Love: The Medieval Venus and Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis 235 Hercules in the Mind: Mythographic Tradition and the References in Hamlet 246 Sandys, Ovid, and Female Chastity: The Encyclopedic Mythographer as Moralist 257 Theodore L. Steinberg George D. Economou Deborah D. Rubin IV. Bibliographic Epilogue Eleven Unpublished Commentaries on Ovid's Metamorphoses and Two Other Texts of Mythographic Interest: Some Comments on a Bibliography 281 Judson Boyce Allen Bibliography 291 Contributors 317 Index. ISBN 9780813009742 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 715. Artikel-Nr. 1240719

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