Download or read book Tirant Lo Blanc written by Joanot Martorell and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1984 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the Catalan language in Valencia in 1490, Tirant lo Blanc ("The White Tyrant") is a sweeping epic of chivalry and high adventure. With great precision and verve, Martorell narrates land and sea battles, duels, hunts, banquets, political

Download or read book Tirant Lo Blanc written by Joanot Martorell and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation, by Ray La Fontaine, is the first English version in the five-hundred year history of Tirant lo Blanc. Accurate readable, and complete, it opens a window to a world of remarkable originality.

Download or read book The Book of the Knight Zifar written by Charles L. Nelson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Knight Zifar (or Cifar), Spain's first novel of chivalry, is the tale of a virtuous but unfortunate knight who has fallen from grace and must seek redemption through suffering and good deeds. Because of a curse that repeatedly deprives him of that most important of knightly accoutrements -- his horse -- Zifar and his family must flee their native India and wander through distant lands seeking to regain their rank and fortune. A series of mishaps divides the family, and the novel follows their separate adventures -- alternatively heroic, comic, and miraculous -- until at length they are reunited and their honor restored. The anonymous author of Zifar based his early fourteenth-century novel on the medieval story of the life of St. Eustacius, but onto this trunk he grafted a surprising variety of narrative types: Oriental tales of romance and magic, biblical stories, moralizing fables popular since the Middle Ages, including several from Aesop, and instructions in the rules of proper knightly conduct. Humor in the form of puns, jokes, and old proverbs also runs through the novel. In particular, the foolish/wise Knave offers a comic contrast to the heroic Knight, whom he must continually rescue through the application of common sense. Zifar was to have an important influence on later Spanish literature, and perhaps on Cervantes' great tale of a knight and his squire, Don Quixote. All those with an interest in Spanish literature and medieval life will be grateful for Mr. Nelson's excellent translation, which brings to life this extraordinary early novel.

Download or read book More about Tirant lo Blanc M s sobre el Tirant lo Blanc written by Anna Maria Babbi and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume highlight the fact that the chivalric novel Tirant lo Blanc – written in Valencia by Joanot Martorell in the 15th century and translated into Italian in the 16th century – keeps being relevant in both the Italian and the Iberian Peninsulas, so closely related in past and present. The knight Joanot Martorell wrote a classic of universal literature despite the fact that he belonged to a minority culture. Nowadays, after having been translated into numerous languages, it is studied in many European and American universities and elicits great interest among researchers, as proven by the contributions included in this book.

Download or read book Tirant Lo Blanc written by Joanot Martorell and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tirant Lo Blanc Translated to English written by Joanot Martorell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tirant lo Blanc"Some books take a little longer than others to make their way into the world. But 494 years?" This was the question NY Times made some years ago.Tirant lo Blanc is a book that time has done justice to, a book that even the great Cervantes already knew how to value in his intervention in Don Quixote, and that was not valued enough for not being written in a main language, becoming the masterpiece of Valencian (or Catalan) literature for centuries.Anyone who cares to dispute his greatness can argue not with me but with Cervantes. In "Don Quixote," the Spanish novelist makes one of his characters say, "I swear to you, my friend, that when it comes to style, it's the best book in the world."This classic novel was published for the first time in the Catalan language in Valencia in 1490. Its main author was Joanot Martorell, a gentleman who worked as a writer. After his death, the last quarter of the story was completed by Marti Joan de Galba, another gentleman. Martorell was primarily a combat knight who would have challenged anyone who dared to call him a man of letters to a duel (on horseback, with a spear and two swords). For a gentleman, that offensive phrase was reserved for lawyers and notaries, three of whom hang in the first 100 pages of this 600-page story. Featuring chivalric adventures, combat, romance and political manipulation, its scenes span from England to Spain and the outposts of the Byzantine empire around the Mediterranean.The fascination, the legend, the romance and the action are not lacking in a book that would mark the way to other works such as Don Quixote and that does not clash with other chivalric books such as the legends of King Arthur.In this edition we have proceeded to translate the original version by Joanot Martorell and Joan de Galba into English to make the work more universal.

Download or read book Tirant Lo Blanch written by Joseph Anthony Vaeth and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Current Perspectives on Literary Reading written by Dari Escandell and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection aims to provide answers regarding what the most recent trends are in research in literary reading. Based on that premise, it contains a rigorously selected and varied roster of investigations that focus on presenting and attempting to interpret and understand the most recent literary trends or tendencies, as well as the reasons for the propensities they create among the masses of young and adult readers. This selection of texts in English, Catalan and Spanish will give the reading specialist an idea of where today’s trends are headed, and how they point towards the formation of a new paradigm in matters of literature.

Download or read book Tirant Lo Blanc written by Arthur Terry and published by Tamesis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New interpretations of the text and context of the 15c Catalan romance telling of Tirant's heroic exploits and adventures in love. In Don Quixote, Cervantes describes Tirant lo Blanc as `the best book in the world'. A remarkable work of fiction, probably the finest to appear anywhere in Europe before Rabelais, it has recently become increasinglyfamiliar to English readers. However, it is a problematic book to categorise: on the one hand, it is an exciting story of Tirant's military exploits and his love for the Princess Carmesina; on the other, it is an encyclopedic work treating many aspects of late fifteenth-century society in vivid detail. The essays collected in this volume offer a variety of fresh interpretations. They cover a vast amount of material, from questions of authorship toclose readings of particular episodes, bringing a varietyof new interpretations to bear. ARTHUR TERRY is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of Essex. Contributors: RAFAEL BELTRAN, JOSEP GUIA, THOMASR. HART, ALBERT G. HAUF, JEREMY LAWRANCE, MONTSERRAT PIERA, JOSEP PUJOL, JESUS D. RODRIGUEZ VELASCO, MARIA JESUS RUBIERA Y MATA, ARTHUR TERRY, CURT WITTLIN

Download or read book Tirant Lo Blanc written by Joanot Martorell and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1986-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brave knight, Tirant lo Blanc, fights to recapture the Byzantine Empire from the Mohammedans and struggles to win the love of Princess Carmesina

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Download or read book The War of Don Emmanuel s Nether Parts written by Louis de Bernieres and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling Corelli's Mandolin is set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Dona Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny. "Walks a precarious edge between slapstick and pathos, never once losing its balance."--Washington Post Book World.

Download or read book Tirant Lo Blanc Revisited written by Kathleen McNerney and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Queering the Medieval Mediterranean Transcultural Sea of Sex Gender Identity and Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queering the Medieval Mediterranean analyzes the forgotten exchange of sexualities that was brought forth through the Mediterranean and its bordering landmasses. It highlights the importance of queerness and sexuality developed on the Mediterranean trade routes.

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Download or read book Tirant Lo Blanc written by Joanot Martorell and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by David H. Rosenthal Here is a recovered Renaissance classic, a Catalan novel of chivalry done into English for the first time by a gifted poet and translator. Cervantes singles out Tirant lo Blanc for very special praise in Don Quixote—in the scene in which the don’s friends, eager to save his sanity, are making a bonfire of the romances of chivalry which have constituted his sole intellectual and spiritual nourishments. Cervantes makes a pointed exception of this work, putting into the mouth of a character the suggestion that the book deserves to remain in print throughout the ages. So it has—and now it can be read in David H. Rosenthal’s lively English. Tirant lo Blanc presents the life of the Renaissance nobility: politics, lovemaking, and war. The hero participates in all these activities with a great deal of dash and good humor, there is much excellent conversation along the way, and by the time the story has come to its satisfying conclusion, the modern reader is convinced that life was quite as complex 500 years ago as it is today—and, for the European nobility, perhaps a good deal more entertaining.