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 Danger of Romance

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022654043X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Book Synopsis The Danger of Romance by : Karen Sullivan

Download or read book The Danger of Romance written by Karen Sullivan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular romance and fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones, reference them in conversations, and create online communities to expound, passionately and intelligently, upon their characters and worlds. But romance is “unrealistic,” critics say, doing readers a disservice by not accurately representing human experiences. It is considered by some to be a distraction from real literature, a distraction from real life, and little more. Yet is it possible that romance is expressing a truth—and a truth unrecognized by realist genres? The Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages, Karen Sullivan argues, consistently ventriloquizes in its pages the criticisms that were being made of romance at the time, and implicitly defends itself against those criticisms. The Danger of Romance shows that the conviction that ordinary reality is the only reality is itself an assumption, and one that can blind those who hold it to the extraordinary phenomena that exist around them. It demonstrates that that which is rare, ephemeral, and inexplicable is no less real than that which is commonplace, long-lasting, and easily accounted for. If romance continues to appeal to audiences today, whether in its Arthurian prototype or in its more recent incarnations, it is because it confirms the perception—or even the hope—of a beauty and truth in the world that realist genres deny.

The Arthur of the French

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Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786837447
Total Pages : 911 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Arthur of the French written by and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages". Its intention is to update the French and Occitan chapters in R.S. Loomis’ "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History" (Oxford, 1959) and to provide a volume which will serve the needs of students and scholars of Arthurian literature. The principal focus is the production, dissemination and evolution of Arthurian material in French and Occitan from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. Beginning with a substantial overview of Arthurian manuscripts, the volume covers writing in both verse (Wace, the Tristan legend, Chretien de Troyes and the Grail Continuations, Marie de France and the anonymous lays, the lesser known romances) and prose (the Vulgate Cycle, the prose Tristan, the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal, etc.).

Joseph d'Arimathie

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Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888441201
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Book Synopsis Joseph d'Arimathie by : Robert (de Boron)

Download or read book Joseph d'Arimathie written by Robert (de Boron) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1995 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Conte Du Graal Cycle

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Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843842858
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis The Conte Du Graal Cycle by : Thomas Hinton

Download or read book The Conte Du Graal Cycle written by Thomas Hinton and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new study of the continuations to Chrétien's Conte du Graal shows their crucial influence on the development of Arthurian literature. Chrétien de Troyes's late twelfth-century Conte du Graal has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. The challenge represented by its unfinished state was quickly taken up, and over the next fifty years the romance was supplemented by a number of continuations and prologues, which eventually came to dwarf Chrétien's text. In one of the first studies to treat the Conte du Graal and its continuations as a unified work, Thomas Hinton considers the whole corpus as a narrative cycle. Through a combination of close textual readings and manuscript analysis, the author argues that the unity of the narrative depends on a balanced tension between centripetal and centrifugal dynamics. He traces how the authors, scribes and illuminators of the cycle worked to produce coherence, even as they contended with potentially disruptive forces: multiple authorship, differences of intention, and changes in the relation between text, audience and book. Finally, he tackles the long-held orthodoxy that places the Perceval Continuations on the margins of literary history. Widening the scope of enquiry to consider the corpus's influence on thirteenth-century verse romances, this study re-situates the Conte du Graal cycle as a vital element in the evolution of Arthurian literature. Thomas Hinton isJunior Research Fellow in Modern Languages at Jesus College, Oxford.

The Romance of the Grail

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Book Synopsis The Romance of the Grail by : Fanni Bogdanow

Download or read book The Romance of the Grail written by Fanni Bogdanow and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes / The Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes, Volume 2

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004456120
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes / The Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes, Volume 2 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051836035
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes written by Keith Busby and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to the Gawain-poet

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859914338
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (143 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to the Gawain-poet by : Derek Brewer

Download or read book A Companion to the Gawain-poet written by Derek Brewer and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1997 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It ends with a discussion of the reception of the Morte Darthur from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and a select bibliography.

The Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval

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Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843843161
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis The Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval by : Leah Tether

Download or read book The Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval written by Leah Tether and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Continuations of Chretien de Troyes' Perceval are here examined as constituting a discrete genre of medieval literature. The notion of Continuation in medieval literature is a familiar one - but difficult to define precisely. Despite the existence of important texts which are commonly referred to as Continuations, such as Le Roman de la Rose,Le Chevalier de la Charrette and, of course, the Perceval Continuations, the mechanics and processes involved in actually producing a Continuation have found themselves indistinguishable from those associated with other forms of medieval réécriture. The Perceval Continuations (composed c.1200-1230) constitute a vast body of material which incorporates four separately authored Continuations, each of which seeks to further,in some way, the unfinished Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes - though they are not merely responses to his work. Chronologically, they were composed one after the other, and the next in line picks up where the previous one left off; they thus respond intertextually to each other as well as to Chrétien, and only one actually furnishes the story as a whole with an ending. Here, these fascinating texts are used as a lens for examining, defining and distinguishing the whole concept of a Continuation; the author also employs theories as to what constitutes an "end" and what is "unfinished", alongside scrutiny of other medieval "ends" and Continuations. Dr Leah Tether isa Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Cultures of the Digital Economy Institute, Anglia Ruskin University.

The Art of Medieval French Romance

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299131906
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (319 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of Medieval French Romance by : Douglas Kelly

Download or read book The Art of Medieval French Romance written by Douglas Kelly and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992-04-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Kelly provides a comprehensive and historically valid analysis of the art of medieval French romance as the romancers themselves describe it. He focuses on well-known writers, such as Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, and also draws on a wide range of other sources—prose romances, non-Arthurian romances, thirteenth-century verse romances, and variant versions from the later Middle Ages. Kelly is the first scholar to present the “art” of medieval romance to a modern audience through the interventions and comments of medieval writers themselves. The book begins by examining the difficulties scholars perceive in medieval literature: problems such as source and intertextuality, structure in its manifold modern meanings, and character psychology and individuality. These issues frame Kelly’s identification and discussion of all the known authorial interventions on the art and craft of romance. Kelly’s careful reconstruction of the “art” of romance, based on the records left by the romancers themselves, will be an invaluable resource and guide for all medievalists.

Rewriting Medieval French Literature

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110638622
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Rewriting Medieval French Literature by : Leah Tether

Download or read book Rewriting Medieval French Literature written by Leah Tether and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane H. M. Taylor is one of the world's foremost scholars of rewriting or réécriture. Her focus has been on literature in medieval and Renaissance France, but rewriting, including continuation, translation, and adaptation, lies at the heart of literary traditions in all vernaculars. This book explores both the interdisciplinarity of rewriting and Taylor's remarkable contribution to its study. The rewriting and reinterpretation of narratives across chronological, social and/or linguistic boundaries represents not only a crucial feature of text transmission, but also a locus of cultural exchange. Taylor has shown that the adaptation of material to conform to the expectations, values, or literary tastes of a different audience can reveal important information regarding the acculturation and reception of medieval texts. In recent years, numerous scholars across disciplines have thus turned to this field of enquiry. This collection of studies dedicated to the rewriting of medieval French literature from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries by Taylor’s friends, colleagues, and former students offers not only a fitting tribute to Taylor’s career, but also a timely consolidation of the very latest research in the field, which will be vital for all scholars of medieval rewriting. With contributions from Jessica Taylor, Keith Busby, Leah Tether, Logan E. Whalen, Mireille Séguy, Christine Ferlampin-Acher, Ad Putter, Anne Salamon, Patrick Moran, Nathalie Koble, Bart Besamusca, Frank Brandsma, Richard Trachsler, Carol J. Chase, Maria Colombo Timelli, Laura Chuhan Campbell, Joan Tasker-Grimbert, Jean-Claude Mühlethaler, Michelle Szkilnik, Thomas Hinton, Elizabeth Archibald.

Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field

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Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840138
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field by : Bonnie Wheeler

Download or read book Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field written by Bonnie Wheeler and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies range over the whole field of Arthurian literature, in Europe and North America, with special focus on Malory and Morte Darthur.

Early Blazon: Heraldic Terminology in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

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Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Early Blazon: Heraldic Terminology in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries written by Gerard J. Brault and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

the year's work in modern language studies

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
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Narrative Techniques in Chrétien de Troyes's Conte Du Graal and Its First and Second Continuations

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Total Pages : 652 pages
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Studies and Texts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Studies and Texts written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: