The World and Its Rival

Essays on Literary Imagination in Honor of Per Nykrog
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-420-0697-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 172, 301 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 717 g

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This volume assembles a wide range of scholars and critical methodologies to suggest multiple interpretations of the vital connection linking literary imagination and the human experience of reality. In varying ways and with varying intent, it speaks to the essential experience of participating in imaginative worlds, offering different accounts of how language signifies in real and imaginary contexts, and why people read and write rival realities. Taking as point of departure Aristotle's definition of poesis, it questions how literature stands in both mimetic and transformative relation to the givens of history, reworking them within the order of imagination and desire. Through historical, linguistic, and literary analysis of texts spanning nine centuries, it demonstrates how though it is irreducible to reality, literary imagination conveys something very real about the human response to the world, including the knowledge and power proper to such experience; neither history nor lie, it discloses a reality purged of extraneous detail, making what is essential to human experience more concentrated and dramatic. Thus made apparent is that literature and history do not exclude each other, but inform, correct, and supplement each other, underscoring the complexities of thought and imagination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Karczewska, Kathryn

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Kathryn KARCZEWSKA: Introduction.
Jan M. ZIOLKOWSKI: A Medieval Little Claus and Big Claus: A Fabliau from Before Fabliaux?.
R. Howard BLOCH: Other Worlds and Other Words in the Works of Marie de France.
Douglas KELLY: Forlorn Hope: Mutability Topoi in Some Medieval Narratives.
Aileen Ann MACDONALD: The Female Tenso: Alamanda's Response to Guiraut de Bornelh.
Matilda Tomaryn BRUCKNER: Romancing History and Rewriting the Game of Fiction: Jean Renart's Rose. Through the Looking Glass of Partonopeu de Blois.
Carol R. DOVER: Galehot and Lancelot: Matters of the Heart.
Keith BUSBY: Fabliaux and the New Codicology.
Lynn TARTE RAMEY: Patriarchy and Monarchy: François de Billon, the Querelle des femmes, and the Rise of French Absolutism.
Nancy ERICKSON BOUZRARA: A Fall from Thélème: Patternsof Infidelity in L'Heptaméron.
Per NYKROG: Alceste and Célimène: Pulling Rabbits out of an Old Hat.
Lionel GOSSMAN: The Alibi of Nature: Michelet and Natural History.
Christie MCDONALD: The Anxiety of Art and the Gift of Writing.
Paulette Anne SMITH: Yggdrasill and the Mapou.
Tom CONLEY: Per Nykrog: Type discutable.