Huon et ses figures: images neuves et bois de réemploi dans les éditions de Michel Le Noir (1513, 1516)
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[1] University of Franche-Comté
University of Franche-Comté
Arrondissement de Besançon, Francia
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- Localización: Studi francesi, ISSN 0039-2944, Nº. 192, 2020, págs. 622-629
- Idioma: francés
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Resumen
The 20 new woodcuts of the 1513 and 1516 editions sold by Michel Le Noir give to the protagonist a preferential figure, which shows him wearing his armor and represents him from a rather caricatured point of view. But as this series of new material covers only one third of the whole, the image collections from the woodcuts in Paris et Vienne, Artus de Bretagne, Olivier de Castille, Les Sept Sages de Rome, Hercules, Euvres et Brefves Exposicions were also used. Olivier de Castille was printed by Le Noir in 1505 (such a book had been put on sale in 1888, then disappeared), so the three illustrations brought by Hp reveal the value of their testimony. Reused woodcuts are useful, even when the meaning of their drawings has still a part that resists, because these images resonate with intertextual concerns. Several substitutes came in help to expand the great circle of literary references, with a concern for effective modernization, even if the advertising carried out relies more on the datation of printed publication of the texts concerned than on the original dates for the writing of such stories. Finally, new or to be classified in the category of reused woodcuts, the figures attributed to Huon as well as to his relatives have a lot of interesting information to reveal on their circulation, their dating and the justification of the associations which pushed them to take up and then resume service in Hp. Even silences can be talkative
