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Intertextual and intersonic resonance in Richard de Fournival’s Bestiaire d'amour: combining perspectives from literary studies and musicology

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The Bestiaire d'amour, as its somewhat strange title suggests, is a multiply hybrid textual beast. The bulk of the text comprises a list of animals whose behaviours it allegorizes: in this way, its title seems aptly to situate it within the bestiary tradition. A closer look, though, reveals that in contrast to the theological and moralizing allegories found in bestiaries, this text interprets all the animals to refer to different kinds of male and female lovers. Its initial appearance as a b...

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University of Oxford
Oxford college:
St Hugh's College
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Early Career Fellowship
Publisher:
Librairie Droz Publisher's website
Journal:
Romania Journal website
Volume:
135
Issue:
2
Pages:
313-351
Publication date:
2018-02-22
Acceptance date:
2017-08-08
ISSN:
0035-8029
ISBN:
978-2-600-05897-1
Pubs id:
pubs:710968
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710968
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2017-08-11

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