The Complete Romances Of Chrétien De Troyes

Author : David Staines
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253013231

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The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes by David Staines Pdf

"[A]n eminently readable text, done clearly and accurately . . . it gives as good an idea as a translation can of the complexity and subtlety of Chrétien's originals. . . . The text is provided by a translator who understands the spirit as well as the letter of the original and renders it with style. . . . [T]his translation should attract a wide audience of students and Arthurian enthusiasts." —Speculum "[A] significant contribution to the field of medieval studies [and] a pleasure to read." —Library Journal "These are, above all, stories of courtly love and of knights tested in their devotion to chivalric ideals (with passion and duty often at odds); but they are also thrilling wonder stories of giants, wild men, tame lions, razor-sharp bridges and visits to the Other World." —Washington Post Book World "This tastefully produced book will be the standard general translation for many years to come." —Choice This new translation brings to life for a new generation of readers the stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, Gawain, Perceval, Yvain, and the other "knights and ladies" of Chrétien de Troyes' famous romances.

Author : Troyes Cretien de
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781681952574

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The Birth of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table“’My good sir, is she your daughter then?’ ‘Yes, but don't pay any attention to what she says,’ said the lord. ‘She's a child - a silly, foolish thing.’ ‘Indeed,’ said my lord Gawain, ‘then I'd be very ill-mannered not to do what she wants.’” - Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes is a collection of short stories set in the Early Middle Ages, in England. They follow the path of several knights – including Lancelot’s dad – through adulthood focusing on their romantic affairs. What tests will the knights encounter in order to prove themselves worthy of a woman’s love?

Author : Chretien Troyes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141903866

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Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur's Queen Guinevere, and in The Knight with the Lion Yvain neglects his bride in his quest for greater glory. Erec and Enide explores a knight's conflict between love and honour, Cligés exalts the possibility of pure love outside marriage, while the haunting The Story of the Grail chronicles the legendary quest. Rich in symbolism, these evocative tales combine closely observed detail with fantastic adventure to create a compelling world that profoundly influenced Malory, and are the basis of the Arthurian legends we know today.

Author : Chrétien (de Troyes),William Wistar Comfort
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780486451015

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Arthurian Romances by Chrétien (de Troyes),William Wistar Comfort Pdf

The 12th-century poet Chrétien de Troyes is chiefly responsible for the preservation of Arthurian myth and its eminent role in European literature. This sensitive translation of his verse narratives features four romances. Its tales of Lancelot and early Grail legends offer lively, accessible views of the ideals of French chivalry.

Author : Norris J. Lacy,Joan Tasker Grimbert
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843841614

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A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes by Norris J. Lacy,Joan Tasker Grimbert Pdf

A fine collection...an excellent introduction to Chrétien's world and work. Highly recommended. CHOICE Chrétien de Troyes is arguably the creator of Arthurian romance, and it is on his work that later writers have based their interpretations. This book offers both crucial information on, and a comprehensive coverage of, all aspectsof the work of Chrétien de Troyes - the literary and historical background, patronage, his influence on other writers, manuscripts and editions of his work and, at the heart of the volume, major essays on the themes, techniques and artistic achievements in each of his compositions; the contributions, all from leading experts in Chrétien and related studies, have been commissioned especially for this volume and are designed to remain accessible to studentswhile also addressing specialists in Arthurian studies and Chrétien de Troyes. They reflect the most current critical and scholarly views on one of the greatest of medieval authors. CONTRIBUTORS: JOHN W. BALDWIN, JUNEHALL MCCASH, LAURENCE HARF-LANCNER, NORRIS J. LACY, DOUGLAS KELLY, KEITH BUSBY, PETER F. DEMBOWSKI, ROBERTA L. KRUEGER, DONALD MADDOX, SARA STURM-MADDOX, JOAN TASKER GRIMBERT, MATILDA TOMARYN BRUCKNER, TONY HUNT, RUPERT T. PICKENS, ANNIE COMBES, MICHELLE SZKILNIK, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER

Author : Joseph J. Duggan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300133707

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The Romances of Chretien de Troyes by Joseph J. Duggan Pdf

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.

Author : Chrétien (de Troyes),Chrétien de Troyes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844006

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The Complete Story of the Grail by Chrétien (de Troyes),Chrétien de Troyes Pdf

The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea to leave. Not only did it inspire quite separate works; his own unfinished poem was continued and finally completed by no fewer than four other writers. The Complete Story of the Grail is the first ever translation of the whole of the rich and compelling body of tales contained in Chrétien's poem and its four Continuations, which are finally attracting the scholarly attention they deserve. Besides Chrétien's original text, there are the anonymous First Continuation (translated here in its fullest version), the Second Continuation attributed to Wauchier de Denain, and the intriguing Third and Fourth Continuations - probably written simultaneously, with no knowledge of each other's work - by Manessier and Gerbert de Montreuil. Two other poets were drawn to create preludes explaining the background to Chrétien's story, and translated here also are their works: The Elucidation Prologue and Bliocadran. Only in this, The Story of the Grail's complete form, can the reader appreciate the narrative skill and invention of the medieval poets and their surprising responses to Chrétien's theme - not least their crucial focus on the knight as a crusader. Equally, Chrétien's original poem was almost always copied in conjunction withone or more of the Continuations, so this translation represents how most medieval readers would have encountered it. Nigel Bryant's previous translations from Medieval French include Perlesvaus - the High Bookof the Grail, Robert de Boron's trilogy Merlin and the Grail, the Medieval Romance of Alexander, The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel and Perceforest.

Author : Chrétien de Troyes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520910974

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Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes Pdf

In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace of the first known Arthurian romance. Erec and Enide is the story of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an illustrious member of Arthur's court, who must learn to balance the demands of a masculine public life—tests of courage, skill, adaptability, and mature judgment—with the equally urgent demands of the private world of love and marriage. We see his wife, Enide, develop as an exemplar of chivalry in the female, not as an Amazon, but as a brave, resolute, and wise woman. Composed ca. 1170, Erec and Enide masterfully combines elements of Celtic legend, classical and ecclesiastical learning, and French medieval culture and ideals. In choosing to write in rhymed octosyllabic couplets–Chrétien's prosodic pattern–Dorothy Gilbert has tried to reproduce what so often gets lost in prose or free verse translations: the precise and delicate meter; the rhyme, with its rich possibilities for emphasis, nuance, puns and jokes; and the "mantic power" implicit in proper names. The result will enable the scholar who cannot read Old French, the student of literature, and the general reader to gain a more sensitive and immediate understanding of the form and spirit of Chrétien's poetry, and to appreciate the more Chrétien's great contribution to European literature.

Author : L. T. Topsfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1981-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521233613

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Chrétien de Troyes: A Study of the Arthurian Romances by L. T. Topsfield Pdf

This 1981 book provides an interpretation of the five Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes. It explores how this most enigmatic and influential of medieval romance-writers reveals his ideas about man, society and God. The texts range from Erec and Enide, through Cliges to Perceval or Le Conte du Graal.

Author : Jean Frappier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005692861

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Chrétien de Troyes, the Man and His Work by Jean Frappier Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:11393799

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Arthurian romances by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chrétien de Troyes
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780820340548

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Perceval, Or, The Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes Pdf

In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail. Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately ornate nature of medieval French, follows Perceval from his home in Wales, through his rich and raucous adventures as a member of the fraternity of knights, to his climactic meeting with the Fisher King. Paralyzed by his first glimpse of the Grail, Perceval fails to save the ailing king. Distraught, the knight begins a new quest for the Grail, a journey on the road of penitence and faith. Perceval's venture, the true test of his knighthood, ends without conclusion; the death of author Chrétien de Troyes left unsaid and undetermined the success of Perceval's quest.

Author : Foster Erwin Guyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044981988

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Romance in the Making by Foster Erwin Guyer Pdf

Author : Norris J. Lacy,Douglas Kelly,Keith Busby
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9062037380

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The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes: Chrétien et ses contemporains by Norris J. Lacy,Douglas Kelly,Keith Busby Pdf

Author : Douglas Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011592956

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The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes by Douglas Kelly Pdf