Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Editor: Douglas Kelly -- Preface / Editor: Douglas Kelly -- Introduction / Douglas Kelly -- Benoît de Sainte-Maure et l’uevre de Troie / Emmanuèle Baumgartner -- Traduire Saint Bernard: Quand la Parabole Devient Roman / Michel Zink -- Patrons and the Beginnings of Courtly Romance / C. Stephen Jaeger -- De la biographie au roman d’Alexandre: Alexandre de Paris et l’art de la conjointure / Laurence Harf-Lancner -- Ovide, texte, translateur et gloses dans les manuscrits de l’ Ovide moralisé / Marc-René Jung -- Inventing the Unknown: Rewriting in Le Bel Inconnu / Donald Maddox -- Configuring Alterity: Rewriting the Fairy Other / Sara Sturm-Maddox -- Grosse Margot and Sotte Chanson : François Villon’s Art of Adaptation / Jane H. M. Taylor -- Motif Transfer in Arthurian Romance / Norris J. Lacy -- Who Is to Be Believed? Conflicting Presentations of Events in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle / Elspeth Kennedy -- Le Restor d’Alexandre dans Ysaÿe le Triste / Michelle Szkilnik -- La Fortune, le Moi et l’Œuvre: Remarques sur la Fonction Poétologique de Fortune au Moyen Age Tardif / Friedrich Wolfzettel -- Rewriting Chrétien’s Conte du graal — Mothers and Sons: Questions, Contradictions, and Connections / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner -- The Presentation of Direct Discourse in Arthurian Romance: Changing Modes of Performance and Reception? / Frank Brandsma -- Gui de Mori’s Rewriting of Faux Semblant in the Tournai Roman de la Rose / Lori Walters -- E potz seguir las rimas contrasemblantz : Imitators of the Master Troubadour Giraut de Bornelh / Elizabeth W. Poe -- Flight from Authority in the Pastourelle / William D. Paden -- From Epic to Romance: The Case of Lion de Bourges / William W. Kibler -- Gilles de Chin in History, Literature, and Folklore / Charity Cannon Willard -- Rewriting Chansons de geste for a Middle High German public / Alois Wolf -- Rewriting the Roman de Renart : The Middle Dutch Beast Epic Van den vos Reynaerde / Bart Besamusca -- Middle English Regenderings of Christine de Pizan / Dhira B. Mahoney.

The Medieval Opus is a broad but detailed study of the art of imitation as rewriting that was practiced in medieval French texts and in texts in other languages influenced by French models. It contains the proceedings of a symposium on this topic. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval French as well as other medieval literatures influenced by French models. The range of texts is broad: from epic to romance and from lyric to late medieval lyrico-narrative genres. The authors teach in a number of countries in Europe and North America, and they represent a variety of approaches, ages, and critical perspectives on medieval rewriting. Two major concepts inform the papers: the bridge work and the specimen text. The bridge work (Tony Hunt's term) refers here two works that have identifiable links to others and that, by those links, reveals something of the art of writing for both works. Specimen texts are works representative of the art of imitation illustrated by the bridge works. The proceedings move beyond the analysis of a general art of composition to investigate original rewriting in specific works that serve as specimen texts. The goal of the proceedings has been to appreciate originality within the framework of the medieval art of literary writing.

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