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Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
professor of french
Education and Academic Degrees:
A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.
Fields of Research:
Medieval French Literature, especially 12th and 13th c. Romance, Verse and Prose Narrative, Troubadour and Trouvère Lyric
Recent Publications: Books:
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Chrétien Continued: A Study of the Conte du Graal and its Verse Continuations. Oxford University Press, 2009. |
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Songs of the Women Troubadours, ed. and tr. Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Laurie Shepard, and Sarah White. New York: Garland Publishers, Inc., 1995 (revised paperback edition 2000). |
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Shaping Romance: Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. |
Articles:
“Chrétien de Troyes,” in A Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature, ed. Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 79-94.
“LeFresne’s Model for Twinning in the Lais of Marie de France.” Modern Language Notes 121 (2006): 946-60.
“Arthur in the Narrative Lay” in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, IV The Arthur of the French, ed. Glyn Burgess and Karen Pratt. Cardiff: The Vinaver Trust and the University of Wales Press, 2006. 186-214 (co-authored with Glyn Burgess; my section is on Marie de France’s Lais, 187-98, 206-8).
“Clever Foxes, Fierce Lions, Diabolical Dragons: Animals Tell Tales in Medieval Arts and Letters." In Secular / Sacred, 11th – 16th Century: Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts. Ed. Nancy Netzer. Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2006. 19-42.
“Marie de France,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford University Press, 2006.
“Authorial Relays: Continuing Chrétien’s Conte du Graal.” The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature, ed. Virginie Greene. New York/Houndmills, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 13-28.
“The Miracle of Compound Interest, or Accounting Games in the Jeu de Saint Nicolas.” “Contez me tout”: Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Herman Braet. Réunis par Catherine Bel, Pascale Dumont et Frank Willaert. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. 39-55.
“Chrétien de Troyes,” in Medieval Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret Schaus. New York: Routledge, 2006.
“Alamanda”(I: 15-16), “Azalais d’Altier” (I: 52-53), “Clara d’Anduza” (I: 193-94), “Lombarda” (II: 51-62), “Tibors” (II: 896-97). In Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia, ed. Katharina Wilson and Nadia Margolis. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.
“Redefining the Center: Prose and Verse Charrette.” In A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, ed. Carol Dover. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2003. 96-105.
“Of Swords and Plowshares: Dislocations and Transformations in Chrétien’s Grail Story.” In Knight and Samurai: Actions and Images of Elite Warriors in Europe and East Asia, ed. Rosemarie Deist in collaboration with Harald Kleinschmidt. Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik. Göppingen, Germany: Kümmerle, 2003. 31-45.
" L'imaginaire du progrès dans les cycles romanesques du graal." In "Progrès, Réaction, Décadence dans L’Occident médiéval. Etudes recueillies par Emmanuèle Baumgartner et Laurence Harf-Lancner." Geneva: Droz, 2003. 111-21.
"Looping the Loop Through a Tale of Beginnings, Middles & Ends: from Chrétien to Gerbert in the Perceval Continuations." In "Por le soie amisté": Essays in Honor of Norris Lacy, ed. Keith Busby & Catherine M. Jones. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. 33-51.
"The Shape of Romance." In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, ed. Roberta Krueger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 13-28.
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