The Legendary Sources of Flaubert's Saint Julien / / Benjamin Bart, Robert Cook.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bart, Benjamin,; Cook, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

The sources for La Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier, one of Flaubert’s finest literary works, have long been the subject of numerous conflicting theories. The implications of the controversy are broad and important, not only for Flaubert’s work but also for our understanding of how writers generally use traditional material. Superficial resemblances have led critics to conclude that Flaubert relied heavily on a medieval tale of Saint Julian and that he borrowed details and specific phrases from his medieval predecessor. This book, by a world renowned specialist in Flaubert studies and a medieval philologist, demonstrates that the Légende is not medieval in structure or in spirit, and that its conception is distinctly modern; where Flaubert borrowed at all he used contemporary sources to recast the Julian legend in Romantic style. Bart and Cook establish definitely what legendary sources were and show how Flaubert came into contact with them. Their extensive commentary compares the sources and the Légende in detail, explains the circumstances under which Flaubert used his materials, and analyses how they were woven into the texture of his own tale. The book makes available source material scattered throughout obscure periodicals, reproduces accurately and dates correctly important segments of Flaubert’s drafts and scenarios, and provides the first modern printed edition of the Alençon life of Saint Julian which Lecointre-Dupont adapted in 1838, thereby giving Flaubert indirect access to the old tale.An introductory chapter explores the broader question of the development of legends and how a particular legendary sequence, embodying powerful themes, was amplified and made explicit from the twelfth century to Flaubert’s time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. The Genesis and Transmission of Legends: The Example of Saint Julian Hospitator -- CHAPTER TWO. Flaubert and the Medieval Tradition -- CHAPTER THREE. The Early Manuscript Accounts of Julian’s Life -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Julian Window at Rouen and Langlois’s Essai ...sur la peinture sur verre (1832) -- CHAPTER FIVE. Langlois and Lecointre-Dupont: Flaubert’s Direct Sources -- CHAPTER SIX. Flaubert’s Contact with Lecointre-Dupont -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Flaubert and the Thirteenth-Century Prose Life of Saint Julian -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Epilogue -- APPENDIXES -- APPENDIX A. The Life of Saint Julian in the Legenda aurea and Brunet’s Translation -- APPENDIX B. The Alencon Text of the Prose Life and Lecointre-Dupont’s Adaptation -- APPENDIX C. The Julian Legend in the Rouen Window -- APPENDIX D. Langlois on the Julian Window at Rouen -- APPENDIX E. The LaVallee Version of the Legend -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF THE QUESTION -- Bibliography and History of the Question -- SECTION B LIST OF ADDITIONAL WORKS CITED -- Index -- Backmatter