Author: James I. WimsattPublisher:
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Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Dit de la fleur de lis et de la marguerite
Author: James I. WimsattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Chaucer's Dream Poetry
Author: Barry A. WindeattPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859910725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodern reader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in English translation before, and many of the texts are difficult to access, being available only in dated French scholarly editions. The authors represented are Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps, as well as some minor and anonymous poems, and there are also relevant translations from Cicero and Boccaccio. The book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were in themselves, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them, and this presents a picture of the poet at work. Some of the French poems are translated carefully by Chaucer, while with other poems he is selective, interested in certain sections of his sources only. In further cases, the original material can be seen to have provided a more general point of departure for Chaucer's own developments on his work.
The Lily and the Thistle
Author: William CalinPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442646659
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
In The Lily and the Thistle, William Calin argues for a reconsideration of the French impact on medieval and renaissance Scottish literature. Calin proposes that much of traditional, medieval, and early modern Scottish culture, thought to be native to Scotland or primarily from England, is in fact strikingly international and European. By situating Scottish works in a broad intertextual context, Calin reveals which French genres and modes were most popular in Scotland and why. The Lily and the Thistle provides appraisals of medieval narrative texts in the high courtly mode (equivalent to the French dits amoureux); comic, didactic, and satirical texts; and Scots romance. Special attention is accorded to texts composed originally in French such as the Arthurian Roman de Fergus, as well as to the lyrics of Mary Queen of Scots and little known writers from the French and Scottish canons. By considering both medieval and renaissance works, Calin is able to observe shifts in taste and French influence over the centuries.
Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693852
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerThe house of fame. The legend of good women. The treatise on the astrolabe. An account of the sources of the Canterbury tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerComplete Works: The house of fame. The legend of good women. The treatise on the astroblabe. An account of the sources of the Canterbury tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerThe Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The house of fame:The legend of good women: The treatise on the astrolabe: with an account of the sources of the Canterbury tales.[v. 4] The Canterbury tales: text
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Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer