The Myth of Guillaume

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Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780917786549
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Book Synopsis The Myth of Guillaume by : David P. Schenck

Download or read book The Myth of Guillaume written by David P. Schenck and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mythology in the Narrative Poems of Guillaume de Machaut

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Book Synopsis Mythology in the Narrative Poems of Guillaume de Machaut by : Christina D. Csoeke-Poeckh

Download or read book Mythology in the Narrative Poems of Guillaume de Machaut written by Christina D. Csoeke-Poeckh and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Myth of Hero and Leander

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786722909
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis The Myth of Hero and Leander by : Silvia Montiglio

Download or read book The Myth of Hero and Leander written by Silvia Montiglio and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across to her, guided by the light of her torch. But the time comes when a winter storm kills both the light and Leander. At dawn, Hero sees her lover's mangled body washed ashore, and so hurls herself from the tower to meet him in death. Silvia Montiglio here shows how and why this affecting story has proved to be one of the most popular and perennial mythologies in the history of the West. Discussing its singular drama, danger, pathos and eroticism, the author explores the origin of the legend and its rich and varied afterlives. She shows how it was used by Greek and Latin writers; how it developed in the Middle Ages - notably in the writings of Christine de Pizan - and Renaissance; how it inspired Byron to swim the Dardanelles; and how it has lived on in representations by artists including Rubens and Frederic Leighton.

The Medieval Charlemagne Legend

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429523920
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis The Medieval Charlemagne Legend by : Susan E. Farrier

Download or read book The Medieval Charlemagne Legend written by Susan E. Farrier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1993, The Medieval Charlemagne Legend is a selective bibliography for the literary scholar, of historical and literary material relating to Charlemagne. The book provides a chronological listing of sources on the legend and man is split into three distinct sections, covering the history of Charlemagne, the literature of Charlemagne and the medieval biography and chronicle of Charlemagne.

Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110645440
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment by : Ricarda Wagner

Download or read book Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment written by Ricarda Wagner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can stories of magical engraved rings or prophetic inscriptions on walls tell us about how writing was perceived before print transformed the world? Writing beyond Pen and Parchment introduces readers to a Middle Ages where writing is not confined to manuscripts but is inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. Drawing on the work done at the Collaborative Research Centre “Material Text Cultures,” (SFB 933) this volume presents a comparative overview of how and where text-bearing artefacts appear in medieval German, Old Norse, British, French, Italian and Iberian literary traditions, and also traces the paths inscribed objects chart across multiple linguistic and cultural traditions. The volume’s focus on the raw materials and practices that shaped artefacts both mundane or fantastical in medieval narratives offers a fresh perspective on the medieval world that takes seriously the vibrancy of matter as a vital aspect of textual culture often overlooked.

Myth and Legend in French Literature

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Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 9780900547850
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)

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Book Synopsis Myth and Legend in French Literature by : Keith Aspley

Download or read book Myth and Legend in French Literature written by Keith Aspley and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Legend of Guy of Warwick

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000525570
Total Pages : 397 pages
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Download or read book The Legend of Guy of Warwick written by Velma Bourgeois Richmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of history when he was named in chronicles and heraldic rolls. The power of the Earls of Warwick, especially Richard de Beauchamp, inspired the spread of the legend, but Guy's highest fame came in the Renaissance as one of the Nine Worthies. Widely praised in texts and allusions, Guy's feats were sung in ballads and celebrated on the stage in England and France. The first Anglo-Norman romance of Gui de Warewic, a Saxon hero of the tenth century was written in the early 13th century; the latest retellings of the legend are contemporary. Examples of Guy's legend can be found in two English translations that survived the Middle Ages, a new French prose romance, a didactic tale in the Gesta Romanorum, and late medieval versions in Celtic, German, and Catalan, as well as English. Guy remained a favorite Edwardian children's story and was featured in the Warwick Pageant, an historical extravaganza of 1906. The patriotism of World War II sparked a resurgence of interest that produced several new versions, mostly folkloric.

The Patient Griselda Myth

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110628716
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis The Patient Griselda Myth by : Madeline Rüegg

Download or read book The Patient Griselda Myth written by Madeline Rüegg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 14th until the 19th century the last novella of Boccaccio’s Decameron, also known as the Griselda story, has been translated and adapted countless times in many European languages. This story’s success can be explained by considering it a myth and analysing how this myth engages with contemporary discourses, such as the definition of the ideal wife, the querelle des femmes, the socio-political consequences of social exogamy, and tyranny.

Seeing Through the Veil

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442667176
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Seeing Through the Veil by : Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Download or read book Seeing Through the Veil written by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not only on medieval science but also on theories of knowledge, and this changing relationship of vision and knowledge was a crucial element in late medieval religious devotion. In Seeing through the Veil, Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines several late medieval allegories in the context of contemporary paradigm shifts in scientific and philosophical theories of vision. After a survey on the genre of allegory and an overview of medieval optical theories, Akbari delves into more detailed studies of several medieval literary works, including the Roman de la Rose, Dante's Vita Nuova, Convivio, and Commedia, and Chaucer's dream visions and Canterbury Tales. The final chapter, 'Division and Darkness,' centres on the legacy of allegory in the fifteenth century. Offering a new interdisciplinary, synthetic approach to late medieval intellectual history and to major works within the medieval literary canon, Seeing through the Veil will be an essential resource to the study of medieval literature and culture, as well as philosophy, history of art, and history of science.

The Scapegoat

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801839173
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis The Scapegoat by : René Girard

Download or read book The Scapegoat written by René Girard and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1989-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal." -- John Yoder, Religion and Literature.

The Myths of Love

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271006895
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Book Synopsis The Myths of Love by : Katherine Heinrichs

Download or read book The Myths of Love written by Katherine Heinrichs and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to define the medieval literary conventions governing allusions to certain Ovidian and Virgilian tales of love in the works of Boccaccio, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer. Using evidence from the Latin mythographers, it addresses several much-debated critical issues in medieval scholarship: questions of narrative voice, thematic unity, and purpose. Its principal contribution is to the discussion and evaluation of the French and Italian poems of love to which Chaucer was most heavily indebted. The author suggests that the love poems of Boccaccio, Machaut, and Froissart, rather than being ponderous didactic productions designed to instruct medieval audiences in the art of love, are true progeny of the Roman de la Rose,complex jeux d'esprit much closer in spirit and intention to the works of Chaucer than has been supposed.

How Did You Sleep?

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Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889842151
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (421 download)

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Book Synopsis How Did You Sleep? by : Paul Glennon

Download or read book How Did You Sleep? written by Paul Glennon and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Paul Glennon is a rare bird. You would never guess it from his photo on the final page of this debut collection. He stands quite ordinarily under a snowy spruce tree in what could easily be Ottawa, his home since 1975. Contextually Canadianized, he squarely faces the camera, quietly earnest and unthreatening. It's a perfectly expected portrait of a fledgling Canuck writer -- and perfectly misleading. This bird's song is complex, refreshingly impudent and previously unknown.'

Archeofuturism

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Publisher : Arktos
ISBN 13 : 1907166106
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Archeofuturism by : Guillaume Faye

Download or read book Archeofuturism written by Guillaume Faye and published by Arktos. This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archeofuturism, an important work in the tradition of the European New Right, is finally now available in English. Challenging many assumptions held by the Right, this book generated much debate when it was first published in French in 1998. Faye believes that the future of the Right requires a transcendence of the division between those who wish for a restoration of the traditions of the past, and those who are calling for new social and technological forms - creating a synthesis which will amplify the strengths and restrain the excesses of both: Archeofuturism. Faye also provides a critique of the New Right; an analysis of the continuing damage being done by Western liberalism, political inertia, unrestrained immigration and ethnic self-hatred; and the need to abandon past positions and dare to face the realities of the present in order to realise the ideology of the future. He prophesises a series of catastrophes between 2010 and 2020, brought about by the unsustainability of the present world order, which he asserts will offer an opportunity to rebuild the West and put Archeofuturism into practice on a grand scale. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the course that the Right must chart in order to deal with the increasing crises and challenges it will face in the coming decades. Guillaume Faye was one of the principal members of the famed French New Right organisation GRECE in the 1970s and '80s. After departing in 1986 due to his disagreement with its strategy, he had a successful career on French television and radio before returning to the stage of political philosophy as a powerful alternative voice with the publication of Archeofuturism. Since then he has continued to challenge the status quo within the Right in his writings, earning him both the admiration and disdain of his colleagues.

From Song to Book

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501746677
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book From Song to Book written by Sylvia Huot and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetics. In this generously illustrated volume, Huot examines manuscript texts both from the performance-oriented lyric tradition of chanson courtoise, or courtly love lyric, and from the self-consciously literary tradition of Old French narrative poetry. She demonstrates that the evolution of the lyrical romance and dit, narrative poems which incorporate thematic and rhetorical elements of the lyric, was responsible for a progressive redefinition of lyric poetry as a written medium and the emergence of an explicitly written literary tradition uniting lyric and narrative poetics. Huot first investigates the nature of the vernacular book in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, analyzing organization, page layout, rubrication, and illumination in a series of manuscripts. She then describes the relationship between poetics and manuscript format in specific texts, including works by widely read medieval authors such as Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, and Guillaume de Machaut, as well as by lesser-known writers including Nicole de Margival and Watriquet de Couvin. Huot focuses on the writers' characteristic modifications of lyric poetics; their use of writing and performance as theme; their treatment of the poet as singer or writer; and of the lady as implied reader or listener; and the ways in which these features of the text were elaborated by scribes and illuminators. Her readings reveal how medieval poets and book-makers conceived their common project, and how they distinguished their respective roles.

Rene Girard and Myth

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113676335X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Rene Girard and Myth written by Richard Golsan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive introduction to the work of contemporary French critic Rene Girard, Richard Golsan focuses on Girard's theory of myth and its connections to his broader exploration of the origins of suffering and violence in Western culture. Golsan highlights two of Girard's primary concepts--mimetic desire and the scapegoat--and employs the concepts to illustrate the ways Girardian analysis of violence in biblical, classical, and folk myths has influenced recent work in theology, psychology, literary studies, and anthropology. The book concludes with an interview between Golsan and Girard, who offers his own analysis of the appropriation (and criticism) of his work by a politically and intellectually diverse company of scholars.

Love and War

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ISBN 13 : 9781907893384
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (933 download)

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Book Synopsis Love and War by : Guillaume Simoneau

Download or read book Love and War written by Guillaume Simoneau and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and War chronicles Guillaume Simoneau's on-off relationship with Caroline Annandale. They first met at the at the Maine Photographic Workshop in 2000. Both in their early 20s, they began a feverish relationship. After the terrorist attacks on the US, Annandale enlisted in the army and was sent to Iraq. The two grew apart, but reunited sever years later to begin a tumultuous second chapter of their relationship. Using a variety of images, text messages and handwritten notes, Simoneau charts the couple's love affair and its attendant ups and downs.

Platonism and Poetry in the Twelfth Century

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400873037
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Platonism and Poetry in the Twelfth Century by : Winthrop Wetherbee

Download or read book Platonism and Poetry in the Twelfth Century written by Winthrop Wetherbee and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chartres as an intellectual and cultural force in the Renaissance of the twelfth century has engaged the attention of critics and scholars from R. L. Poole through Gilson, Curtius, and Huizinga to, most recently, Peter Dronke. Its importance as a poetic tradition is now reviewed by Winthrop Wetherbee, first as it developed at Chartres, then as it influenced later poetry, French as well as Latin. Mr. Wetherbee analyzes, and supports with his own translations, the poetry notably of Bernardus Silvestrus and Alain dc Lille: he defines the intellectual milieu of the Chartrian poets and their Platonic conception of nature, man, and poetry. Myth, philosophy, and the literary statement that gives them poetic being are Mr. Wetherbee's essential concern, as they were in fact the concern of the poets he discusses. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.