Description: Contributors to this collection consider the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in many different ways. Inherently unstable, identity is created, re-created, adopted, refused, imposed, and self-imposed. Additionally, taken together the essays posit that an individual may identify with a group, existing within it, and yet remain foreign to it.
Brief description: Kristin L. Burr is professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Saint Joseph's University. She is coeditor of The Old French Fabliaux: Essays on Comedy and Context.