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Medievalism in a minority language : Frédéric Mistral’s Wish-Fulfillment Provençal Past

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William Calin

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

relief - revue électronique de littérature française

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1873-5045

DOI - 10.18352/relief.884

Subject(s) - wish , medievalism , romance , modernity , middle ages , queen (butterfly) , drama , art , literature , reading (process) , humanities , history , philosophy , ancient history , linguistics , epistemology , biology , hymenoptera , botany

Frederic 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 Reino 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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