Anti-Saints: The New Golden Legend of Sylvain Maréchal
Autor Sheila Delanyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780888646040
ISBN-10: 0888646046
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada
ISBN-10: 0888646046
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada
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Comentariile autorului
Scholarly introduction, notes, bibliography
Recenzii
Compiled by a radical journalist and poet in the early days of the French Revolution, these subversively satirical lives of women saints sought to win both women and men away from religion. Though based on authentic hagiography, Maréchal's "new" legendary introduces a skeptical, rationalist perspective that anticipates modern critical approaches. Along with Delany's thorough introduction and notes, Anti-Saints offers a new perspective on the cultural climate of the French Revolution and a strikingly modern contribution to our own public conversation on religion. A must for scholars and non-specialists alike, and for lovers of audacious wit. "Sylvain Maréchal was an important writer and journalist of the French Revolution, and this particular book of his is rare even in the original French edition. Through her excellent translation, Sheila Delany has made an important primary text available to scholars and readers. Her brilliant and perceptive introduction places the text in the contexts of Maréchal's literary career, political commitments, and historical period, and identifies its medieval precursors and literary and religious traditions. She sheds new light on Maréchal's activities and motivations as a writer committed to shaping the views and aspirations of a society in the tumult of revolution. A distinguished medievalist, Delany has established a significant connection between medieval religious writing and the writing of the French Revolution." -David Gay, Professor of English, University of Alberta Sheila Delany is Professor Emerita at Simon Fraser University. A medievalist and lifelong political activist, she has already brought one forgotten author, Osbern Bokenham, into the scholarly mainstream. Delany lives in Vancouver.
“'Lives of the Saints,' or hagiography, was once a robust literary genre unto itself, and a highly respectable one at that. Today it is the opposite of intellectually respectable. The cultural distance reflected in the opposing valuations of hagiography makes it difficult for modern readers to fully appreciate Sylvain Maréchal’s parodic treatment of the genre in Nouvelle légende dorée, the work that Sheila Delany has wonderfully brought back to life in English under the title Anti-Saints.... Delany’s resurrection of the Nouvelle légende dorée is to be welcomed especially because it puts the spotlight on an author whose literary contributions to the French Revolution have heretofore been undervalued..."
"This book offers a fascinating cultural find: a strong and significant text from the first phases of the French Revolution which is virtually unknown even among specialists of the period and never reprinted in modern times.... Delany’s unearthing and decoding of Maréchal’s satirical lives of women saints is first of all a truly original intellectual achievement, thanks to an uncommon combination of scholarly competences in both medieval and French revolutionary history and literature.... Delany’s excellent translation, as sparkling and spirited and ironic as the original French, but also as stark and uncompromising, renders the way the author plays with words...."
“'Lives of the Saints,' or hagiography, was once a robust literary genre unto itself, and a highly respectable one at that. Today it is the opposite of intellectually respectable. The cultural distance reflected in the opposing valuations of hagiography makes it difficult for modern readers to fully appreciate Sylvain Maréchal’s parodic treatment of the genre in Nouvelle légende dorée, the work that Sheila Delany has wonderfully brought back to life in English under the title Anti-Saints.... Delany’s resurrection of the Nouvelle légende dorée is to be welcomed especially because it puts the spotlight on an author whose literary contributions to the French Revolution have heretofore been undervalued..."
"This book offers a fascinating cultural find: a strong and significant text from the first phases of the French Revolution which is virtually unknown even among specialists of the period and never reprinted in modern times.... Delany’s unearthing and decoding of Maréchal’s satirical lives of women saints is first of all a truly original intellectual achievement, thanks to an uncommon combination of scholarly competences in both medieval and French revolutionary history and literature.... Delany’s excellent translation, as sparkling and spirited and ironic as the original French, but also as stark and uncompromising, renders the way the author plays with words...."