Image and Imagination: Picturing the Old French Epic - Couverture souple

Malicote, Sandra

 
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Synopsis

This interdisciplinary study of word and image in the Old French chanson de geste examines the relationship between illumination and epic narrative constructed by the medieval understanding of the imagination. The study focuses on the epic cycle "the geste of Saint Gille," including Aiol and Elie de Saint Gille.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sandra Malicote (Ph.D., Indiana University) is a professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and formerly chaired the Humanities Program and the Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Her articles have appeared in Romania, Romanic Review, Olifant, (Kentucky) Romance Quarterly, French Review and Contemporary French Civilization. She is completing a new critical edition (with A. Richard Hartman) of the Old French epic cycle the "geste de Saint Gille."

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