Medieval Mythography, Volume Three

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.

Author: Jane Chance
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 11/15/2019
Pages: 698
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9781532688980
ISBN10: 1532688989
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Medieval
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Religion

About the Author
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.