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Donald
Maddox.
Fictions of Identity in Medieval France.
Cambridge U.P., 2000.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 43.
xx,295pp.
Hardback ISBN
0521781051.
Publisher's
recommended price £42.50
In this
study of
vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later
Middle Ages, Donald Maddox considers the construction of identity in a
wide range of fictions. He focuses on crucial encounters, widespread in
medieval literature, in which characters are informed about fundamental
aspects of their own circumstances and selfhood. These always arresting
and highly significant moments of 'specular' encounter are examined in
numerous Old and Middle French romances, hagiographic texts, epics and
brief narratives. Maddox discloses the key role of identity in an
original
reading of the Lais of Marie de France as a unified collection,
as well as in Arthurian literature, fictions of the courtly tryst,
genealogies,
and medieval family romance. The study offers many new perspectives on
the poetics and cultural implications of identity as an imaginary
construct
during the long formative period of French literature.
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