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Beschreibung:

VII; 301 Seiten; Illustrationen; 23,5 cm. Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Exemplar. - Englisch. - This volume of original essays is the first collection devoted to the monumental Roman de Melusine (1393) by Jean d'Arras. A masterwork of late fourteenth-century French prose fiction, Melusine tells of the powerful medieval dynasty of Lusignan from its founding as a city by the legendary Melusine, an enigmatic fairy-figure subject to periodic monstrous transformations, through its expansion in Europe and the Near East, to its ultimate evanescence. Melusine offers a singular blend of history and fiction as it upholds the proprietary claims to Lusignan of the work's illustrious patron, Jean, Due de Berry. The great deeds of Melusine, her forbears, and her progeny unfold in a narrative that blends elements of myth, folklore, and popular traditions with epic, Crusade narrative, romance, and theological doctrine. ? (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Preface ----- Introduction: Melusine at 600 " DONALD MADDOX AND SARA STURM-MADDOX ----- Crossed Destinies: Narrative Programs in the Roman de Melusine " SARA STURM-MADDOX ----- The Domestication of the Marvelous in the Melusine Romances " DOUGLAS KELLY ----- The Poetics of Paradox in the Roman de Melusine " RUPERT T. PICKENS ----- Melusine's Hybrid Body and the Poetics of Metamorphosis ----- " KEVIN BROWNLEE ----- Maternity and Monstrosity: Reproductive Biology in the Roman de Melusine " GABRIELLE M. SPIEGEL ----- "La fourme du pie toute escripte": Melusine and the Entrance into History " LAURENCE DE LOOZE ----- Melusine Between Myth and History: Profile of a Female Demon " STEPHEN G. NICHOLS ----- Melusine's Progeny: Patterns and Perplexities ----- " JANE H. M. TAYLOR ----- Fiction and History: The Cypriot Episode in Jean d'Arras's ----- Melusine " EMMANUELE BAUMCARTNER ----- Writing History/Writing Fiction " MICHELE PERRET Interference in Melusine " MARINA S. BROWNLEE ----- Myths in Progress: A Literary-Typological Comparison of Melusine and Joan of Arc " NADIA MARGOLIS ----- Configuring the Epilogue: Ending and the Ends of Fiction in the Roman de Melusine " DONALD MADDOX ----- Principal Works Cited ----- Contributors ----- Index.