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Book The Old French epic

Download or read book The Old French epic written by A. Hindley and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Peeters 1983)

Book The Old French Epic

Download or read book The Old French Epic written by Jessie Crosland and published by Haskell House Pub Limited. This book was released on 1971 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object of this study is to give an account of this remarkable "genre," this outburst of epic poems during the eleventh & twelfth centuries which is quite unparalleled in the history of French literature.

Book Heroes of the French Epic

Download or read book Heroes of the French Epic written by and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The translations preserve the dynamic, musical qualities of their oral-based originals, and are intended for both general and more specialised readers. Introductions and Select Bibliographies accompany each poem."--Jacket.

Book The Epic Quest

Download or read book The Epic Quest written by William Calin and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The old French epic of revolt

Download or read book The old French epic of revolt written by William C. Calin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heroines of the French Epic

Download or read book Heroines of the French Epic written by and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic tales of medieval France, called chansons de geste, or "songs of deeds", provided the chief means of cultural and imaginative expression in the French language for over one hundred and fifty years (c.1100-1250), during one of the most significant periods of social change in the history of Western civilisation. Yet they remain largely unknown to most English-speaking readers of the twenty-first century. In Heroes of the Old French Epic (Boydell, 2005) Michael Newth translated a selection of the traditional militaristic narratives dominated by male heroes. This oral-based epic genre was increasingly influenced by the ethos of romance, and the present volumeoffers full English verse translations of six more of these songs, each chosen this time to illustrate the range of roles gradually accorded to women in these originally militaristic narratives. Four key narrative roles have beenselected - woman as helpmeet, woman as lover, woman as victim, and woman as spiritual model - in order to illustrate some major changes in the social status of women that took place during the period of this popular genre's existence. These poems are a key witness to the final stages of the chansons de geste before they were overtaken by the new fashion for the fictions of courtly romance. Apart from "The Capture of Orange", which has never been translated into modern English verse, none of the poems have yet appeared in English translation.

Book The Old French Epic of Revolt

Download or read book The Old French Epic of Revolt written by William Calin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Old French Epic

Download or read book The Old French Epic written by Alan Hindley and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Old French Epic  by Jessie Crosland

Download or read book The Old French Epic by Jessie Crosland written by Jessie Crosland and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The old French epic of revolt

Download or read book The old French epic of revolt written by William C. Calin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book THE OLD FRENCH EPIC  VON JESSIE CROSLAND

Download or read book THE OLD FRENCH EPIC VON JESSIE CROSLAND written by Jessie Crosland and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Old French Trilogy

Download or read book An Old French Trilogy written by Catherine Mary Jones and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a broad and rich view of the tradition of Old French epic poetry, or chansons de geste, by providing an updated English translation of three central poems from the twelfth-century Guillaume d'Orange cycle.

Book Image and Imagination

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  • Author : Sandra Malicote
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0761848320
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Image and Imagination written by Sandra Malicote and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth interdisciplinary study of word and image in the Old French chanson degeste, Image and Imagination: Picturing the Old French Epic examines the fascinating relationship between illumination and epic narrative constructed by the medieval understanding of the imagination. The study focuses on the epic cycle known as "the geste of Saint Gille," including Aiol and Elie de Saint Gille. The poems in manuscript were produced in the context of the opulent francophone Flemish courts of the mid-to-late thirteenth century. The manuscript (known as BNF fr 25516) is richly illuminated, and the study includes the popular Beuves de Hanstone, forerunner of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the poem Robert le Diable, later becoming meyerbeer's celebrated opera. Concluding with the comparative study of BNF fr 24403's epic treatment of the only illuminated version of Chretien de Troyes' first Arthurian work, Erec et Enide, and the Sancti Bertini version of La Chevalerie Vivien, the first dated collection of epics made for a prominent northern Bishop, this study introduces the hitherto little-explored world of medieval illumination and epic narrative poetics. Book jacket.

Book The Song of Roland

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  • Author : John DuVal
  • Publisher : Hackett Publishing
  • Release : 2012-09-15
  • ISBN : 1603849181
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book The Song of Roland written by John DuVal and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swift yet resonant, this masterful new verse translation conveys the immediacy, intimacy, and power of this greatest of Old French epic poems. John DuVal approaches the unadorned syntax of The Song of Roland in straightforward modern English, attuned to the nuance and detail of the narrative and the poetry of the original text. In his concise but thorough general Introduction, David Staines traces the origins of the poem and its reception in medieval society, discusses its content and its themes, and in clear, accessible prose illuminates the epic poem’s chivalric spirit. Footnotes provide glosses on events, characters, and medieval terms. Endnotes discuss editorial and translational issues. This edition also includes a selected bibliography, a map, and a glossary and index. An appendix provides the entire text of the Old French original.

Book An Introduction to the Chansons de Geste

Download or read book An Introduction to the Chansons de Geste written by Catherine Mary Jones and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the best-known and most frequently taught chanson de geste ("songs of heroic deeds") from medieval France, including the Song of Roland and the Voyage of Charlemagne.

Book The Song of Roland

Download or read book The Song of Roland written by Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: