Marie de France : poetry, new translations, backgrounds and contexts, criticism

Marie de France : poetry, new translations, backgrounds and contexts, criticism /

"Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and who lived in England during the twelfth century. Prominent among the earliest poets writing in the French vernacular, Marie de France helped shape the style and genres of later medieval poetry. This Norton Critical Edition...

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Main Author: Marie, de France, active 12th century
Other Authors: Gilbert, Dorothy, 1936- (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Old French
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Series:Norton critical edition.
Subjects:
Marie, > de France, > active 12th century > Translations into English.
Marie, > de France, > active 12th century > Criticism and interpretation.
Marie, > de France, > active 12th century.
Criticism and interpretation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Translations.
Table of Contents:
  • The lais : translations
  • The fables : translations (selected)
  • Espurgatoire de Seint Patriz
  • The supernatural
  • Love and romance
  • Medical traditions
  • Fable sources and analogues : similar themes
  • Purgatory and the afterlife
  • Early criticism
  • Modern criticism : the lais and fables, Saint Patrick's Purgatory.

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