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Book Synopsis From Plato to Lancelot by : K. Sarah-Jane Murray
Download or read book From Plato to Lancelot written by K. Sarah-Jane Murray and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered the most important figure in medieval French literature, Chrétien de Troyes is credited with inventing the modern novel. The roots of his influential Arthurian romance narratives remain the subject of investigation and great debate among medieval scholars. In From Plato to Lancelot, K. Sara-Jane Murray makes a highly original and profoundly significant contribution to the current scholarship by locating Chrétien’s work at the intersection of two important traditions: one derived from Greco-Roman antiquity, the other from the Celtic world of the Atlantic seaboard. Drawing on a broad range of sources, from Plato’s Timaeus and Ovid’s Metamorphoses to the anonymous Lais translated in the twelfth century by Marie de France, Murray demonstrates that Chrétien and his contemporaries learned the importance of translation from the Mediterranean-centered classical tradition. She then turns to the Celtic world, examining how Irish monastic scholarship, as demonstrated by the Voyage of St. Brendan and Celtic saints’ lives, profoundly influenced the cultural identity of medieval Europe and paved the way for an interest in Celtic stories and legends. With breathtaking insight and lucid prose, Murray illustrates that Chrétien’s singular genius lay in his ability to look to the future and to lay the foundations for a thoroughly new, and French, tradition of vernacular storytelling.
Book Synopsis From Plato to Lancelot by : K. Sarah-Jane Murray
Download or read book From Plato to Lancelot written by K. Sarah-Jane Murray and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author locates Chretien de Troyes' work at the intersection of two important traditions: one derived from Greco-Roman antiquity, the other from the Celtic world of the Atlantic seaboard.
Book Synopsis Lancelot, Or, The Knight of the Cart by : Chrétien (de Troyes)
Download or read book Lancelot, Or, The Knight of the Cart written by Chrétien (de Troyes) and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this verse translation of Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot, Ruth Harwood Cline revives the original story of the immortal love affair between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, a tale that has spawned interpretations ranging from Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur to Lerner and Lowe's Camelot. By remaining faithful to Chrétien's highly structured form, Cline preserves the pace, the pungency of proverbial expressions, and the work's poetical devices and word play in translating this archetypal tale of courtly love from Old French into modern English. Cline's introduction--containing a description of Arthur in history and literature, a discussion of courtly love, and an account of the continuations of the story of Lancelot and Guinevere--makes Lancelot an ideal classroom text.
Book Synopsis Lancelot-Grail: Lancelot, pt. I by : Norris J. Lacy
Download or read book Lancelot-Grail: Lancelot, pt. I written by Norris J. Lacy and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parts one and two of Lancelot cover Lancelot s boyhood and his admission to Arthur s court, where he falls immediately in love with Guenevere. The adventures and quests which follow, including his friendship with the tragic Galehaut, take us to the point where he becomes a companion of the Round Table. --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Lancelot-Grail: Lancelot, pt. III by : Norris J. Lacy
Download or read book Lancelot-Grail: Lancelot, pt. III written by Norris J. Lacy and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parts one and two of Lancelot cover Lancelot s boyhood and his admission to Arthur s court, where he falls immediately in love with Guenevere. The adventures and quests which follow, including his friendship with the tragic Galehaut, take us to the point where he becomes a companion of the Round Table. --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart (Chretien de Troyes Romances) by : William Comfort
Download or read book Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart (Chretien de Troyes Romances) written by William Comfort and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romantic poems of 12th-century French poet Chretien de Troyes were of immense influence across Europe - widely imitated, translated, and adapted. Giving rise to a tradition of story-telling that continues to this day, the poems established the shape of the nascent Arthurian legend. This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as an important figure in the King Arthur legend. "Lancelot" tells of the adulterous relationship between the knight and his mistress, Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur. Thematically this poem differs from Chretien's other romances - Lancelot and Guinevere's love is a serious crime against their king, Lancelot casts aside his knightly ideals and reputation for the sake of his beloved, and Arthur is endowed with a weaker personality. Chretien de Troyes is one of the unsung heroes of world literature in general and Arthurian legend in particular. In Perceval he introduced the Grail, a fundamental symbol that fascinated other medieval writers, who expanded on it until the Grail became the defining object of the entire literature. And in Lancelot, Chretien created a story of love and betrayal that achieved almost equal importance with the Grail legend. If you're interested in medieval literature, particularly knightly tales and anything concerned with Arthurian legend, Lancelot is in indispensable read. You won't be disappointed.
Book Synopsis Lancelot and the Grail by : Elspeth Kennedy
Download or read book Lancelot and the Grail written by Elspeth Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elspeth Kennedy's Lancelot and the Grail offers a new solution to the fascinating puzzle of how the tale of Lancelot's love for Guinevere came to be linked with the legend of the Grail. Based on extensive research on the textual tradition of a romance copied and read over a time span of three centuries, the book raises such issues as the interplay between feudal relationships and literary structures, intertextuality, and the development of a text through time.
Download or read book Lancelot of the Lake written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 13th century French romance tells of Lancelot's childhood, his arrival at King Arthur's court, and the flowering of his legendary love affair with Queen Guinevere.
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.
Book Synopsis The Legacy of Courtly Literature by : Deborah Nelson-Campbell
Download or read book The Legacy of Courtly Literature written by Deborah Nelson-Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume examines the enduring influence of courtly tradition and courtly love, particularly in contemporary popular culture. The ten chapters explore topics including the impact of the medieval troubadour in modern love songs, the legacy of figures such as Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, and Merlin in modern film and literature, and more generally, how courtly and chivalric conceptions of love have shaped the Western world’s conception of love, loyalty, honor, and adultery throughout history and to this day.
Download or read book Lancelot written by Chrétien (de Troyes) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romantic poems of twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes were of immense influence across Europe - widely imitated, translated, and adapted. Giving rise to a tradition of story-telling that continues to this day, the poems established the shape of the nascent Arthurian legend. In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English-language readers the fourth of Chretien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems. This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as an important figure in the King Arthur legend. Lancelot tells of the adulterous relationship between the knight and his mistress, Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur. Thematically this poem differs from Chretien's other romances - Lancelot and Guinevere's love is a serious crime against their king, Lancelot casts aside his knightly ideals and reputation for the sake of his beloved, and Arthur is endowed with a weaker personality. Raffel has created an original three-stress metric verse form that captures Chretien's swift-paced narrative and lively, sparkling Old French. A consummate translator, Raffel enables the modern reader and the reader who is unfamiliar with French to appreciate the beauty of Chretien's original.
Book Synopsis Lancelot Andrews and His Private Devotions by : Lancelot Andrewes
Download or read book Lancelot Andrews and His Private Devotions written by Lancelot Andrewes and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy by : Virginie Greene
Download or read book Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy written by Virginie Greene and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art still influences our global culture of fiction. Virginie Greene explores the relationship between fiction and the development of neo-Aristotelian logic during this period through a close examination of seminal literary and philosophical texts by major medieval authors, such as Anselm of Canterbury, Abélard, and Chrétien de Troyes. This study of Old French logical fictions encourages a broader theoretical reflection about fiction as a universal human trait and a defining element of the history of Western philosophy and literature. Additional close readings of classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and modern analytic philosophy including the work of Bertrand Russell and Rudolf Carnap, demonstrate peculiar traits of Western rationalism and expose its ambivalent relationship to fiction.
Book Synopsis The Book of Lancelot by : Bart Besamusca
Download or read book The Book of Lancelot written by Bart Besamusca and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book consists of five chapters. The introductory chapter deals with the study of cyclicity, the literary context of the Lancelot Compilation, and the manuscript tradition. In the following three chapters the ten romances are studied one by one. Each analysis consists of two parts: a description of the compiler's source and a survey of his interventions. In the fifth and last chapter the Lancelot Compilation is characterized as a narrative cycle and compared with French, English and German cycles. The monograph concludes with an attempt to describe the essence of the compilation."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Lancelot-Grail: Lancelot, pt. V by : Norris J. Lacy
Download or read book Lancelot-Grail: Lancelot, pt. V written by Norris J. Lacy and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parts one and two of Lancelot cover Lancelot s boyhood and his admission to Arthur s court, where he falls immediately in love with Guenevere. The adventures and quests which follow, including his friendship with the tragic Galehaut, take us to the point where he becomes a companion of the Round Table. --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Weakness of Will from Plato to the Present (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Volume 49) by : Tobias Hoffmann
Download or read book Weakness of Will from Plato to the Present (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Volume 49) written by Tobias Hoffmann and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteen original essays, eminent scholars of the history of philosophy and of contemporary philosophy examine weakness of will, or incontinence--the phenomenon of acting contrary to one's better judgment.
Book Synopsis Walter Map and the Matter of Britain by : Joshua Byron Smith
Download or read book Walter Map and the Matter of Britain written by Joshua Byron Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would the thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer this and other questions and offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain circulated in England.
