Romancing the truth: vernacular history and the origin of fiction.
Lecture by Professor Simon Gaunt (Kings College London)
Professor Simon Gaunt is Professor of French Language and Literature at Kings College London.
| A Centre for Translating Cultures lecture | |
|---|---|
| Date | 22 March 2017 |
| Place | Queens Building LT7.1 + 7.2 |
| Provider | Centre for Translating Cultures |
Event details
His main research interests are: Old French literature; medieval Occitan literature; textual criticism (editing medieval texts); modern critical theory. He has worked on a wide range of twelfth- and thirteenth-century texts, including troubadour lyric, chansons de geste, verse and prose courtly romance, fabliaux, beast epic, hagiography, the Roman de la Rose and medieval travel literature. He is particularly interested in theoretically oriented approaches to medieval literature and textual criticism, notably in relation to feminism and queer theory, Marxism, psychoanalysis, anthropology and postcolonial theory.
His most recent books are Marco Polo's Le Devisement du Monde: Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity (Boydell and Brewer, 2013) and (with Karen Pratt) The Song of Roland and other Poems of Charlemagne (OUP, 2016). He was PI on the AHRC-funded project Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France, and is currently PI on the ERC-funded project The Values of French.
Location:
Queens Building LT7.1 + 7.2
