Si sai encor moult bon estoire, chançon moult bone et anciene : studies in the text and context of old French narrative in honour of Joseph J. Duggan
Sophie Marnette (Editor), John F. Levy (Editor), Leslie Zarker Morgan (Editor), Joseph J. Duggan
Professor Joseph J. Duggan, emeritus professor at the University of California (Berkeley) is an eminent scholar of Medieval Studies who has written seminal works on Romance Literatures (and Old French Epics in particular). His work ranges from editions of medieval classics such as the Chanson de Roland to articles about troubadours' lyrics and a monograph on Chrétien de Troyes. Here, fifteen contributions from his former students and colleagues offer literary, narratological, philological, and contextual studies of the texts he has taught and researched over his long and prestigious career
Print Book, English, 2015
The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, Oxford, 2015
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxx, 379 pages ; 24 cm.
9780907570301, 0907570305
915888807
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Publication by Joseph J. Duggan
Dissertations directed by Joseph J. Duggan
1 Charlemagne and William of Orange in the Vita sancti Willelmi and the Franco-Italian Mort Charlemagne / Alice Colby-Hall
2 The sacrifical logic of the Chanson de Girart de Roussillon / Mary Franklin-Brown
3 Battle at court: the onset of war in Garin le Loherain and its prose adaptations / Catherine M. Jones
4 Le personnage de Flordespine dans Gaufrey: subtilité, finesse et ruse / Bernard Guidot
5 Contours of the laisse and transmission of the chanson de geste: examples from the Chanson de Roland, the Charroi de Nîmes and Prise d'Orange / Edward A. Heinemann
6 Enchaînemen: what it is, what it isn't and why it makes a difference / John F. Levy
7 Sur les syntagmes chanson de geste, chanter de geste et chanter de...+ anthroponyme: contextes, uages et polémiques / Lacques E. Merceron
8 Charlemagne croquemort dans le Roland Rimé: les raisons d'un geste et l'étymologie d'un mot / Giovanni Palumbo
9 Calogrenant's prologue / David F. Hult
10 Framing discourse: three versions of De la Damoiseke qui ne pooit oïr parler de foutre / Sophie Marnette
11 Arthur, Alexander, and Renart in the workshop / Keith Busby
12 Renaut de Montauban et la Chronique de France jusqu'en 1380 / François Suard
13 Arthur and Gormund: conquest, domination and assimilation on Wace's Roman de Brut / Jean Blacker
14 Warlordism in the Cantar de Mio Cid / Michael P. Harney
15 A snapshot of Franco-Italian: romance and epic in the Gonzaga Inventory of 1407 / Leslie Zarker Morgan
Essays in English and French