Erec and Enide

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820340510
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Erec and Enide by : Chrétien de Troyes

Download or read book Erec and Enide written by Chrétien de Troyes and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erec and Enide marks the birth of the Arthurian romance as a literary genre. Written circa 1170, this version of the Griselda legend tells the story of the marriage of Erec, a handsome and courageous Welsh prince and knight of the Round Table, and Enide, an impoverished noblewoman. When the lovers become estranged because Erec neglects his knightly obligations, they subsequently ride off together on a series of adventures that culminate in their reconciliation and the liberation of a captive knight in an enchanted orchard. An innovative poet working during a time of great literary creativity, Chrétien de Troyes wrote poems that had a lively pace, skillful structure, and vivid descriptive detail. Ruth Harwood Cline re-creates for modern audiences his irony, humor, and charm, while retaining the style and substance of the original octosyllabic couplets. Her thorough introduction includes discussions of courtly love and the Arthurian legend in history and literature, as well as a new and provocative theory about the identity of Chrétien de Troyes. This clearly presented translation, faithful in preserving the subtle expressive qualities of the original work, is accessible reading for any Arthurian legend aficionado and an ideal text for students of medieval literature.

Arthurian Romances

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486147517
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Book Synopsis Arthurian Romances by : Chretien de Troyes

Download or read book Arthurian Romances written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with romantic tales of Lancelot and early Grail legends, this exacting translation of de Troyes' verse narratives written in the 12th century features four romances that expound on the ideals of French chivalry.

The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253013232
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes by : David Staines

Download or read book The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes written by David Staines and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-22 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A]n eminently readable text, done clearly and accurately . . . it gives as good an idea as a translation can of the complexity and subtlety of Chrétien's originals. . . . The text is provided by a translator who understands the spirit as well as the letter of the original and renders it with style. . . . [T]his translation should attract a wide audience of students and Arthurian enthusiasts." —Speculum "[A] significant contribution to the field of medieval studies [and] a pleasure to read." —Library Journal "These are, above all, stories of courtly love and of knights tested in their devotion to chivalric ideals (with passion and duty often at odds); but they are also thrilling wonder stories of giants, wild men, tame lions, razor-sharp bridges and visits to the Other World." —Washington Post Book World "This tastefully produced book will be the standard general translation for many years to come." —Choice This new translation brings to life for a new generation of readers the stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, Gawain, Perceval, Yvain, and the other "knights and ladies" of Chrétien de Troyes' famous romances.

Erec and Enid

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Publisher : Dutton Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Erec and Enid by : Barbara Schiller

Download or read book Erec and Enid written by Barbara Schiller and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1970 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erec, the new knight of the Round Table, hunts the White Stag in the Forest of Adventure.

Poems 1962-2012

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374126089
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems 1962-2012 by : Louise Glück

Download or read book Poems 1962-2012 written by Louise Glück and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glck's poetry resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems.

Like

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374719187
Total Pages : 114 pages
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Book Synopsis Like by : A. E. Stallings

Download or read book Like written by A. E. Stallings and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry A stunning new collection by the award-winning young poet and translator Like, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it, there is no simile, that engine of the lyric poem, the lyre’s note in the epic. A poem can hardly exist otherwise. In this new collection, her most ambitious to date, A. E. Stallings continues her archeology of the domestic, her odyssey through myth and motherhood in received and invented forms, from sonnets to syllabics. Stallings also eschews the poetry volume’s conventional sections for the arbitrary order of the alphabet. Contemporary Athens itself, a place never dull during the economic and migration crises of recent years, shakes off the dust of history and emerges as a vibrant character. Known for her wry and musical lyric poems, Stallings here explores her themes in greater depth, including the bravura performance Lost and Found, a meditation in ottava rima on a parent’s sublunary dance with daily-ness and time, set in the moon’s Valley of Lost Things.

The Romances of Chretien de Troyes

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133707
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The Romances of Chretien de Troyes by : Joseph J. Duggan

Download or read book The Romances of Chretien de Troyes written by Joseph J. Duggan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes was one of the most influential figures in Western literature, for his romantic poems on the legend of King Arthur gave rise to a tradition of storytelling that continues to this day. This important and fascinating book is a study of all of Chrétien’s work. Joseph J. Duggan begins with an introduction that sets Chrétien within the social and intellectual currents of his time. He then organizes the book in chapters that focus on major issues in Chrétien’s romances rather than on individual works, topics that range from the importance of kinship and genealogy to standards of secular moral responsibility and from Chrétien’s art of narration to his representation of knighthood. Duggan offers new perspectives on many of these themes: in a chapter on the influence of Celtic mythology, for example, he gives special attention to the ways Chrétien integrated portrayals of motivation with mythic themes and characters, and in discussing the Grail romance, he explores the parallels between Perceval’s and Gauvain’s adventures.

The Parisian Prowler

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820318795
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis The Parisian Prowler by : Charles Baudelaire

Download or read book The Parisian Prowler written by Charles Baudelaire and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Edouard Manet to T. S. Eliot to Jim Morrison, the reach of Charles Baudelaire's influence is beyond estimation. In this prize-winning translation of his no-longer-neglected masterpiece, Baudelaire offers a singular view of 1850s Paris. Evoking a mélange of reactions, these fifty "fables of modern life" take us on various tours led by a flâneur, an incognito stroller. Through day and night, in gleaming cafés and filthy side streets, this alienated yet compassionate esthete muses on the bizarre in the commonplace, the sublime in the mundane. As the work reveals a teeming metropolis on the eve of great change, we see a Paris as contradictory, surprising, and ultimately unknowable as our guide himself. Superbly complemented by twenty-one period illustrations by Delacroix, Callot, Manet, Whistler, Baudelaire himself, and others, The Parisian Prowler is an essential companion to Les Fleurs du Mal and other works by the father of modern poetry. In the preface to this edition, translator Edward K. Kaplan explains how the volume's illustrations act as a graphic subtext to the narrator's observations.

Erec and Enide

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520910973
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Erec and Enide written by Chrétien de Troyes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-12-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace of the first known Arthurian romance. Erec and Enide is the story of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an illustrious member of Arthur's court, who must learn to balance the demands of a masculine public life—tests of courage, skill, adaptability, and mature judgment—with the equally urgent demands of the private world of love and marriage. We see his wife, Enide, develop as an exemplar of chivalry in the female, not as an Amazon, but as a brave, resolute, and wise woman. Composed ca. 1170, Erec and Enide masterfully combines elements of Celtic legend, classical and ecclesiastical learning, and French medieval culture and ideals. In choosing to write in rhymed octosyllabic couplets–Chrétien's prosodic pattern–Dorothy Gilbert has tried to reproduce what so often gets lost in prose or free verse translations: the precise and delicate meter; the rhyme, with its rich possibilities for emphasis, nuance, puns and jokes; and the "mantic power" implicit in proper names. The result will enable the scholar who cannot read Old French, the student of literature, and the general reader to gain a more sensitive and immediate understanding of the form and spirit of Chrétien's poetry, and to appreciate the more Chrétien's great contribution to European literature.

The True History of Merlin the Magician

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030018929X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The True History of Merlin the Magician by : Anne Lawrence-Mathers

Download or read book The True History of Merlin the Magician written by Anne Lawrence-Mathers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was “Merlin the Magician” and his impact on Britain. Merlin has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, his “historical” figure and his relation to medieval magic are less familiar. In this book Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores just who he was and what he has meant to Britain. The historical Merlin was no rough magician: he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology, cosmology, prophecy, and natural magic, as well as being a seer and a proto-alchemist. His powers were convincingly real—and useful, for they helped to add credibility to the “long-lost” history of Britain which first revealed them to a European public. Merlin’s prophecies reassuringly foretold Britain’s path, establishing an ancient ancestral line and linking biblical prophecy with more recent times. Merlin helped to put British history into world history. Lawrence-Mathers also explores the meaning of Merlin’s magic across the centuries, arguing that he embodied ancient Christian and pagan magical traditions, recreated for a medieval court and shaped to fit a new moral framework. Linking Merlin’s reality and power with the culture of the Middle Ages, this remarkable book reveals the true impact of the most famous magician of all time. “The story of how the image of Merlin as political prophet, magician and half-demon evolved in the Middle Ages is as fascinating as any romance.”—Euan Cameron

Medieval Marriage

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859915120
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (151 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Marriage by : Neil Cartlidge

Download or read book Medieval Marriage written by Neil Cartlidge and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Cartlidge analyses a number of continental texts which are central to any study of medieval marriage - the De amore of Andreas Capellanus, Erec et Enide, and the letters of Abelard and Heloise - but it is the concern with marriage in the medieval literature of England in particular that forms the substance of this book.

The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789062037483
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes by : Norris J. Lacy

Download or read book The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes written by Norris J. Lacy and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

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ISBN 13 : 9780521715157
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (151 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative by : H. Porter Abbott

Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative written by H. Porter Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular textbook has been completely revised and updated, and includes two entirely new chapters.

Structure and Sacring

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Structure and Sacring by : Donald Maddox

Download or read book Structure and Sacring written by Donald Maddox and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes

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Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843842548
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes by : Zrinka Stahuljak

Download or read book Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes written by Zrinka Stahuljak and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2011 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This co-written book challenges assumptions about Chrétien as the author of a canon of works. In a series of exchanges, its five authors reassess the relationship between lyric and romance, between individuality and social conditions, and between psychology and medieval philosophy.

Erex Saga and Ívens Saga

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Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Erex Saga and Ívens Saga written by Chrétien (de Troyes) and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Erec and Enide

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429534485
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Erec and Enide written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1987: Erec and Enide, the first of five surviving Arthurian romantic poems by a twelfth-century French poet, narrates a vivid chapter from the legend of King Arthur.