Medieval Mythography, Volume Three

Langbeschreibung
With this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature. Her focus here is the advent of hybrid mythography, the transformation of mythological commentary by blending the scholarly with the courtly and the personal.No other work examines the mythographic interrelationships among these poets and their unique and personal approaches to mythological commentary.
Jane Chance is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of English Emerita at Rice University and recipient of an honorary doctorate from Purdue University (2013) as well as NEH and Guggenheim Fellowships. Author or editor of twenty-four other books, she has published Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (1986; rpr. 2005), and The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (2007), as well as Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (1996). Her most recent book is Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature" (2016). She is also Series Editor of the Library of Medieval Women (Boydell and Brewer), offering classroom translations of works by medieval women.
ISBN-13:
9781532688980
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.11.2019
Seiten:
698
Autor:
Jane Chance
Gewicht:
1147 g
Format:
235x157x42 mm
Sprache:
Englisch

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