Medievalism in a minority language : Frédéric Mistral’s Wish-Fulfillment Provençal Past
Frédéric Mistral is the only figure in the Felibrige to have devoted a significant portion of his oeuvre to the Middle Ages. This essay offers a new reading of his two works situated in the Middle Ages – the romance Nerto (1884), and the drama La Rèino Jano (Queen Joanna) (1890). It argues that as a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Radboud University Press in cooperation with Open Journals
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise |
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| Online Access: | http://www.revue-relief.org/articles/10.18352/relief.884/ |
| Summary: | Frédéric Mistral is the only figure in the Felibrige to have devoted a significant portion of his oeuvre to the Middle Ages. This essay offers a new reading of his two works situated in the Middle Ages – the romance Nerto (1884), and the drama La Rèino Jano (Queen Joanna) (1890). It argues that as a belated Romantic, Mistral repudiates the evils of modernity. His medievalism reflects and gives voice to his own political vision whereby the contemporary situation is displaced into a wish-fulfillment fourteenth century, in which France is conspicuous by its absence. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-5045 |