{"product_id":"medieval-boundaries-rethinking-difference-in-old-french-literature-hardback-9780812239195","title":"Medieval Boundaries; Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature (Hardback) 9780812239195","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMedieval Boundaries\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRethinking Difference in Old French Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSharon Kinoshita (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812239195\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 April 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 11 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.648 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"From beginning to end, Kinoshita drives home her innovative thesis: that the formation of French literary texts between 1150 and 1225 cannot adequately be understood without reference to various types of cross-cultural contact between French-speaking nobles and those perceived by them as cultural, religious, and linguistic 'others.'\" (E. Jane Burns, University of North Carolina) \"Kinoshita has produced a book of major importance. Her command of the Francophone Middle Ages should exert an important critical influence on the greater field of Middle English and should also be recognized as an important contribution to the prehistory of postcolonial studies.\" (David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania) \"I highly recommend this timely study as one of the most innovative, cohesive, and ambitious I have read-one that is capable of reinvigorating medieval literary studies in the Romance languages at the undergraduate and graduate level and will be a \u003ci\u003ede rigueur\u003c\/i\u003e citation in any future bibliography of the period.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Medieval Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMedieval Boundaries\u003c\/i\u003e, Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature. Starting from the observation that many of the earliest and best-known works of the French literary tradition are set on or beyond the borders of the French-speaking world, she reads the \u003ci\u003eChanson de Roland\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003elais\u003c\/i\u003e of Marie de France, and a variety of other texts in an expanded geographical frame that includes the Iberian peninsula, the Welsh marches, and the eastern Mediterranean. In Kinoshita's reconceptualization of the geographical and cultural boundaries of the medieval West, such places become significant not only as sites of conflict but also as spaces of intense political, economic, and cultural negotiation.\u003cbr\u003e An important contribution to the emerging field of medieval postcolonialism, Kinoshita's work explores the limitations of reading the literature of the French Middle Ages as an inevitable link in the historical construction of modern discourses of Orientalism, colonialism, race, and Christian-Muslim conflict. Rather, drawing on recent historical and art historical scholarship, Kinoshita uncovers a vernacular culture at odds with official discourses of crusade and conquest. Situating each work in its specific context, she brings to light the lived experiences of the knights and nobles for whom this literature was first composed and-in a series of close readings informed by postcolonial and feminist theory-demonstrates that literary representations of cultural encounters often provided the pretext for questioning the most basic categories of medieval identity.\u003cbr\u003e Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Epic Revisions\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"Pagans Are Wrong and Christians Are Right\": From Parias to Crusade in the \u003ci\u003eChanson de Roland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Politics of Courtly Love: \u003ci\u003eLa Prise d'Orange\u003c\/i\u003e and the Conversion of the Saracen Queen\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Romances of Assimilation\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"In the Beginning Was the Road\": \u003ci\u003eFloire et Blancheflor\u003c\/i\u003e in the Medieval Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003e 4. Colonial Possessions: Wales and the Anglo-Norman Imaginary in the \u003ci\u003eLais\u003c\/i\u003e of Marie de France\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Crisis and Change in the Thirteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e 5. Brave New Worlds: Robert de Clari's \u003ci\u003eLa Conquête de Constantinople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Romance of MiscegeNation: Negotiating Identities in \u003ci\u003eLa Fille du comte de Pontieu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Uncivil Wars: Imagining Community in \u003ci\u003eLa Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555708170520,"sku":"9780812239195","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/medieval-boundaries-rethinking-difference-in-old-french-literature-hardback-9780812239195","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}