Yvain

Author : Chrétien de Troyes
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820340555

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Yvain; Or, the Knight with the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes Pdf

This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a genre, Chrétien is revealed in this work as a witty, versatile writer who mastered both the soaring flight of emotion and the devastating aside and was as skillful a debater of the finer points of love as he was a describer of battles.

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9782806297068

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Yvain, The Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes (Book Analysis) by Bright Summaries Pdf

Unlock the more straightforward side of Yvain, The Knight of the Lion with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Yvain, The Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes, a medieval novel which recounts the adventures of Yvain, a valiant knight from King Arthur’s court. After learning of an incredible fountain with the power to create storms, Yvain sets off on an adventure to see this wonder with his own eyes. This decision leads to many exciting adventures, tense battles, and even an unexpected romance. Yvain, the Knight of the Lion was written in the 12th century and, in many ways, is a revolutionary novel, which swept aside many of the genre’s clichés and introduced a range of new ideas and concepts. This was not the only novel written by Chrétien de Troyes: although little is known about the man himself, he wrote several other stories, and is known for creating the character of Lancelot. Find out everything you need to know about Yvain, The Knight of the Lion in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Author : Evans Lansing Smith
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0761805095

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The Hero Journey in Literature by Evans Lansing Smith Pdf

This book provides an overview of the hero journey theme in literature, from antiquity to the present, with a focus on the imagery of the rites of passage in human life (initiation at adolescence, mid-life, and death). This is the only book to focus on the major works of the literary tradition, detailing discussions of the hero journey in major literary texts. Included are chapters on the literature of Antiquity (Sumerian, Egyptian, Biblical, Greek, and Roman), the Middle Ages (with emphasis on the Arthurian Romance), the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Shakespeare, Milton, Marvell, Pope, Fielding, the Arabian Nights, and Alchemical Illustration), Romanticism and Naturalism (Coleridge, Selected Grimm's Tales, Bront%, Bierce, Whitman, Twain, Hawthorne, E.T.A. Hoffman, Rabindranath Tagore), and Modernism to Contemporary (Joyce, Gilman, Alifa Rifaat, Bellow, Lessing, Pynchon, Eudora Welty).

Author : Chretien de Troyes,Chrétien (de Troyes)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1987-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780300038385

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Yvain by Chretien de Troyes,Chrétien (de Troyes) Pdf

A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love

Author : John Howe
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0316375837

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The Knight with the Lion by John Howe Pdf

A retelling of the knightly adventures of Yvain and his faithful lion, culminating in his reconciliation with the proud lady Ludine.

Author : Bonnie Wheeler
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843840138

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Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field by Bonnie Wheeler Pdf

Studies range over the whole field of Arthurian literature, in Europe and North America, with special focus on Malory and Morte Darthur.

Author : Corinne J. Saunders
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0859913813

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The Forest of Medieval Romance by Corinne J. Saunders Pdf

Corinne J. Saunders's exploration of the topos of the forest, a familiar and ubiquitous motif in the literature of the middle ages, is a broad study embracing a range of medieval and Elizabethan exts from the twelft to the sixteenth centuries: the roman d'antiquite, Breton lay and courtly romance, the hagiographical tradition of the Vita Merlini and the Queste del Saint Graal, Spenser and Shakespeare. Saunders identifies the forest as a primary romance landscape, as a place of adventure, love, and spiritual vision... offers a pleasurable overview of the narrative function of the forest as a literary landscape. Based on a close comparative and theoretically non-partisan] reading of a broad range of literary texts drawn from the Europeqan canon, Saunders's study explores the continuity and transformation of an important motif in the corpus of medieval literature. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEWDr CORINNE SAUNDERSteaches in the Department of English at the University of Durham. BLURBEXTRACTED FROM TLS REVIEW] ...An immense tract, not only of medieval literature but of human experience is] engagingly introduced and presented here...Corinne Saunders considers first forests in reality (a reality which keeps breaking through in romance...). She looks also at the classical and biblical models including Virgil, Statius and Nebuchadnezzar...only then does she turn to the non-real and non-Classical, i.e. the medieval and romantic. Here she follows a clear chronological plan from twelfth to fifteenth centuries also covering] the allegorized landscape of Spenser and the lovers' woods of Arden or Athens in Shakespeare. Her text-by-text layout does justice to the variety of possibilities taken up by different authors; the forest as a place where men run mad and turn into animals, a place of voluntary suffering, a focus of significance in the Grail-quests, a lovers' bower; above all and centrally, the place where the knight is tested and defined, even (as with Perceval) created.

Author : Norris J. Lacy,Joan T. Grimbert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843840503

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

One of the most important medieval authors studied in historical and literary context. 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 his 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, JUNE HALL 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 : Bart Besamusca,Keith Busby,Erik Kooper
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859915468

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Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein by Bart Besamusca,Keith Busby,Erik Kooper Pdf

New editor, new directions: the series broadens its scope to encompass European literatures other than French and English; still, however, "an indispensable component of any historical or Arthurian library". NOTES AND QUERIES This new volume of Arthurian Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted to the Roman van Walewein(The Romance of Walewein [Gawain]) by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an undisputed gem of Middle Dutch literature which has recently become accessible to an English-speaking audience through translation. Essentially a fairy-tale written into Arthurian romance, it presents a Gawain quite different to the man found in the English Sir Gawain and the Green Knightor the French Gauvain. Expert readings of the Walewein, especially commissioned and collected by BART BESAMUSCA and ERIK KOOPERof the University of Utrecht are provided by a group of renowned scholars, contributing to the on-going critical appraisal of the Walewein. KEITH BUSBY is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissane Studies, University of Oklahoma. Contributors: BART BESAMUSCA, ERIK KOOPER, WALTER HAUG, DOUGLAS KELLY, NORRIS J. LACY, MATHIAS MEYER, AD PUTTER, FELICITY RIDDY, THEA SUMMERFIELD, JANE H.M. TAYLOR, BART VELDHOEN, NORBERT VOORWINDEN, LORI WALTERS

Author : Joseph H. Reason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : UOM:39015028757006

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An Inquiry Into the Structural Style and Originality of Chrestien's Yvain by Joseph H. Reason Pdf

Author : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1974-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521200040

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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 by George Watson,Ian Roy Willison Pdf

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Author : Tom Artin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015048746054

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The Allegory of Adventure: Reading Chrétien's Erec and Yvain by Tom Artin Pdf

Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9781843842521

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Lancelot-Grail: Chapter summaries by Norris J. Lacy Pdf

Parts one and two of Lancelot cover Lancelot s boyhood and his admission to Arthur s court, where he falls immediately in love with Guenevere. The adventures and quests which follow, including his friendship with the tragic Galehaut, take us to the point where he becomes a companion of the Round Table. --Book Jacket.

Author : Evelyn Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P008191759

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Disputed Gender Categories in the Yvain Stories by Evelyn Meyer Pdf

Author : Paul Vincent Rockwell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : French literature
ISBN : 0815320353

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Rewriting Resemblance in Medieval French Romance by Paul Vincent Rockwell Pdf

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.