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COPYRIGHT 2005 Modern Humanities Research Association
The Anonymous Marie de France. By R. HOWARD BLOCH. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. xii+367 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-05968-5.
R. Howard Bloch's latest book is a very personal work. Dedicated to the memory of his wife (Naomi Schor), it is also written with a declared fondness for and identification with its subject, of a sort not often encountered today. Personal too is its interest in Marie de France's psychology, a sense of which Bloch claims can be reconstructed from a study of her oeuvre as a whole. Its intimate tone renders the book's meditations on love, death, and memory genuinely touching, and it seems inappropriate...
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