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Record Number:
3327
Author(s)/Creator(s):
de Looze , Laurence.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Marie de France et la Textualisation: Arbre, Enfant, Oeuvre dans le Lai de "Fresne" [Throughout the poem, Marie de France exploits metaphorical language that connects the process of procreation (the birth of a child through sexual reproduction) and the generation of a text by a writer. The metaphorical correspondence between the labor or “work” of writing and the labor of childbirth informs the language of many French texts written during this time. The anxieties expressed by modern scholars who attempt to use manuscripts to reconstruct a pure and authorial edition of a text thus reflect medieval writers’ own anxieties about the legitimacy of sexual and textual reproduction. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Romanic Review 81, 4 ( 1990): Pages 396 - 408.
Description:
Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Childbirth in Literature
Editing Texts
French Studies
Human Reproduction
Illegitimacy in Literature
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Fresne
Manuscripts
Metaphor
Literature- Verse
Old French Language
Trees in Literature
Readers
Romance, Literary Genre
Women Au
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
France
Century:
12
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Illustrations:
Table:
Abstract:
[An abstract to this article proceeds it in the journal.]
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Author's Affiliation:
Harvard University
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
1990.
Language:
French
ISSN/ISBN:
00358118