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This work explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks: What were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Which techniques did poets use to integrate classical subject matter into their own texts? Was a special interpretive tradition created for vernacular texts? In Chapter 1, the author shows how Latin epic texts were reoriented for political purposes in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm, gaining new depth by the addition of Ovidian elements that evoked threats of a disorder different from the struggles of classical epic. Chapter 2 analyzes the complex use of myth in the thirteenth-century Roman de la Rose, which offers new conjunctions and interpretations of myths related to language, artistic expression, and sexuality. Chapter 3 focuses on the interpretive techniques and vocabulary of the fourteenth-century Ovide moralisZ, such as allegory, fable, and istoire, arguing that the Christianization of the Metamorphoses created a new Ovid in the form of a fourteenth-century friar.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Reading Myth
• Subtitle: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature
• Author: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780804728102
• ISBN: 0804728100
• ID: 04716539
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 639 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 1997

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