The Philomena of Chrétien the Jew: The Semiotics of Evil

Peter Haidu; Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

The Philomena of Chrétien the Jew
The Semiotics of Evil

Peter Haidu, edited by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

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Research Monographs in French Studies 59

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28 September 2020 • 170pp

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Ovid’s gruesome tale of rape, mutilation, and revenge, transformed into Philomena and retold in French octosyllables, found its way into the fourteenth century Ovide moralisé with a signature at its mid-point: Crestiens li gois, the great twelfth century romancer’s early avatar. Writing two generations after the Jewish massacres of the First Crusade, Christian the Goy playfully alludes to his hybrid status as a forced convert, even as he hides his identity in order to invent – like Philomena herself – new signs, a new language to speak the unspeakable and construct a fictional universe whose universalist values offer a critique of contemporary society. Such is Peter Haidu’s conjecture and argument, combining philology, history and theory to offer a political interpretation and close reading of how a young poet transposed his horror at the holocaust of 1096.

Left unpublished at his death, this summa of Peter Haidu’s long and distinguished career as medievalist, literary theorist, historian, and master interpreter of Chrétien de Troyes, has been edited by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Professor emerita of French (Boston College).

See news item: Peter Haidu and Me (13 April 2021)

Reviews:

‘Haidu forwards an argument – or ‘weaves together [its] threads’ (p. 8), much like Philomena herself – in an alternative reading that is as cogent as it is complex, as arresting as it is analytical, as ‘emotional’ as it is ‘intellectual’ (p. 5).’ — Rebecca Courtier, Medium Aevum 92.1, 2023, 183-85

Contents:

1-18	Introduction Caught in the Co-Text of History: An Introduction To Peter Haidu’s Philomena Project Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrkn.4	Cite
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19-20	Preface Peter Haidu doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrkn.5	Cite
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21-28	Introduction History, Potentiality, and Dialectical Reading Peter Haidu, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrkn.6	Cite
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29-62	Part I Identity and History Peter Haidu, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrkn.7	Cite
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63-126	PART II Philomena and the Semiotics of Evil Peter Haidu, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrkn.8	Cite
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127-136	Conclusion Chrétien De Troyes: Singular Universal Peter Haidu, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrkn.9	Cite
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137-142	Appendix: Counting Jews in Medieval History Peter Haidu, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrkn.10	Cite
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143-154	Bibliography Peter Haidu, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrkn.11	Cite
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155-158	Index Peter Haidu, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgrkn.12	Cite
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The Philomena of Chrétien the JewThe Semiotics of Evil

Peter Haidu, edited by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

The Philomena of Chrétien the Jew
The Semiotics of Evil