Deschamps, Eustache | Francesca Canadé Sautman (essay date 1998)
Francesca Canadé Sautman (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Sautman, Francesca Canadé. “Eustache Deschamps in the Forest of Folklore.” In Eustache Deschamps: French Courtier-Poet, His Work and His World, ed. Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, pp. 195-207. New York: AMS Press, Inc. 1998.
[In the essay which follows, Sautman explores the ways folkloric motifs and themes suffuse a number of Deschamps's poems.]
Carl Lindahl's study of Chaucer and folklore felicitously reopens the question of the place occupied by folklore and folklife in great works of Western literature. A number of medieval and Renaissance authors and works have been interpreted in a variety of ways within this framework.1
Lindahl warns of several misreadings of folklore in relation to medieval literature. One is that limiting folklore to a list of items, for instance to artistic genres, as earlier scholars tended to do, merges medieval folklore and medieval...
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