Romance
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Internal Difference and Meanings in the Roman de la Rose [Paperback]
Douglas Kelly (Author)
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ISBN: 9780299147846
Published by : University of Wisconsin Press
Kelly interprets the Roman de la Rose in the context of known medieval reading strategies elaborated by Jean de Meun himself in the course of the poem. He probes the modes used by Jean, examining the text from their different perspectives and draw... .... Learn More -
Petrarch's Songbook: A Verse Translation [Paperback]
James Wyatt Cook (Author)
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ISBN: 9780866981927
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
The complete Italian text of the 366 poems which make up Petrarch's Rerum Vulgurium Fragmenta with a facing page English verse translation. An introduction considers Petrarch's life and poetic achievement. .... Learn More -
Medieval French Literature: An Introduction [Paperback]
Michel Zink (Author)
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ISBN: 9780866981613
Published by : Pegasus Press
Michel Zink's book is a lucid and comprehensive introductorry manual of French literature in the Middle Ages. As much a well-reasoned argument about the early evolution of the French language as it is an account of that evolution, Professor Zink's... .... Learn More -
Boccaccio: The Corbaccio or the Labyrinth of Love [Paperback]
Anthony K. Cassell (Translator)
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ISBN: 9780866981545
Published by : Pegasus Press
Written immediately after the Decameron, The Corbaccio - or the evil crow - is the last fictional work Giovanni Boccaccio ever wrote. This book provides an English translation and an introduction which places the Corbaccio within a tradition of li... .... Learn More -
Christopher Columbus's Discoveries in the Testimonials of Diego Alvarez Changa and Andres Bernáldez [Hardback]
Anna Unali (Author); G Triolo (Author); L F Farina (Author)
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ISBN: 9788824002677
Published by : Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca
Presents together two fundamental works relating to the Columbian period, composed in 1494 and 1513. The two works reflect different historical perspectives. .... Learn More -
Early Prose in France: Contexts of Bilingualism and Authority [Hardback]
Jeanette Beer (Author)
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ISBN: 9781879288126
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
It is fast becoming dogma that French prose “emerged” out of poetry by a process of “deversification” in the thirteenth century. Since the earliest extant example of written French prose dates back to the eighth century, this premise cannot be tak... .... Learn More -
Severed Word [Hardback]
Marina Scordilis Brownlee (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691068091
Published by : Princeton University Press
This study of the fifteenth century Spanish novela sentimental argues that this protonovelistic form was a highly original rewriting of Ovid. .... Learn More -
Latin Poetic Irony in the Roman de la Rose [Hardback]
Marc M. Pelen (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780905205328
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
The Roman de la Rose is a work of ambivalence and paradox: recurring images and topics are handled in a contradictory manner by different speakers. These apparent oppositions spring, as Dr. Pelen argues in this important study, from an underly... .... Learn More -
Le Roman de Tristan en Prose II [Hardback]
Renee L. Curtis (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9780859911825
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Renée Curtis's three-volume critical edition of the Prose Tristanis the only edition of this very important medieval work ever published; until the first volume appeared in 1963, the work was only accessible in the form ofa few fragments which had... .... Learn More
