Love's Masks: Identity, Intertextuality and Meaning in the Old French Tristan Po

Description: Love's Masks by Merritt R. Blakeslee Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description French Tristan poets of the 12th century worked within a self-contained tradition. In the process of retelling the Tristan matter they elaborated a network of connections among the narrative elements of the French Tristan poems. This book traces the poets conscious thought processes and unconscious associations as they reworked their material. Publisher Description `Loves Masks raises provocative questions about the Old French Tristan poems and their context and provides some suggestive answers. Donald Hoffman, QUONDAM ET FUTURUS, Vol. I, No 1 Spring 1991 `-a highly readable, useful overview of theTristan corpus, an excellent introduction for students and a suggestive analysis for specialists. SPECULUM French Tristan poets of the 12th century worked within a self-contained tradition, though they drew on a variety of sources. In the process of retelling and embellishing the Tristan matter they elaborated a significant network of connections among the narrative elements of the French Tristan poems. There have been many studies of the relation of a given text to the traditional body of narrative material, but Dr Blakeslee seeks to do something rather different: he traces the poets conscious thought processes and unconscious associations as they reworked their material.This is achieved through an examination of a single narrative element - the identities of Tristan -in the first generation of French Tristan texts, those versions of the Tristan legend composed in octosyllabic Anglo-Norman or French verse in the latter half of the 12th century and the first quarter of the 13th. Dr Blakeslee studies Tristans parentage and antecedents, the circumstances of his birth and naming, his education and skills, his physical appearance. He then considers his social identities - knight, musician and hunter -and analyses the narrative function and metaphoric significance of the disguises that he adopts: leper, fool, minstrel, `Nightingale, pilgrim, and wild man; finally he discusses the hero as victim and saviour, identities that bring together in a single unifying metaphor the varied and contradictory elements of Tristans persona. The meaning of these identities is seen to arise from the metaphorical development of narrative detail in an earlier version of the legend or in the broader literary and cultural ethos in which the poem was composed. Details ISBN 0859912647 ISBN-13 9780859912648 Title Love's Masks Author Merritt R. Blakeslee Format Hardcover Year 1989 Pages 175 Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd GE_Item_ID:143085712; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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