TY - BOOK AU - Tudor,Adrian P. AU - Burr,Kristin L. TI - Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature: The Other Within SN - 9780813057194 AV - PQ155.I35 S53 U1 - 840.9001 PY - 2019/// CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - French literature-To 1500-History and criticism KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Literature and society-France KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- SHAPING IDENTITY IN MEDIEVAL FRENCH LITERATURE -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature -- 1. The Medieval Moi Multiple: Names, Surnames, and Personifications -- 2. "Je vueil ung livre commencier": The Othernesses of Othon de Grandson's "Je" -- 3. Huon de Bordeaux: The Cultural Dream as Palimpsest -- 4. Ringing True: Shifting Identity in Le Roman de la Violette -- 5. Inside Out and Outside In: (Re-)Reading the Other in the Guillaume Cycle -- 6. Ami et Amile and Jean-Luc Nancy: Friendship versus Community? -- 7. The Devil Inside: Merlin and the Dark Side of Romance -- 8. Melly and Merlin: Locating Little Voices in Paris BnF fr. 24432 -- 9. Sex, the Church, and the Medieval Reader: Shaping Salvation in the Vie des Pères -- 10. Roland's Confession and the Rhetorical Construction of the Other Within -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index N2 - Contributors to this collection consider the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in many different ways. Inherently unstable, identity is created, re-created, adopted, refused, imposed, and self-imposed. Additionally, taken together the essays posit that an individual may identify with a group, existing within it, and yet remain foreign to it UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5846458 ER -