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Fairies in medieval romance
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Type: Book
This book offers new approaches for thinking about the narrative possibilities of fairies in medieval romance, from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie to Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur.
Fairies in medieval romance
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Type: Book
This text constructs a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.
"Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living foresee, organize or desire their own deaths. Jane Gilbert's original study examines the ways in which certain medieval li…
"In Crossing Borders, Sahar Amer turns to the rich body of Arabic sexological writings to focus, in particular, on their open attitude toward erotic love between women. By juxtaposing these Arabic texts with French works, she reveals a medieval French literary discourse on same-…
"In Crossing Borders, Sahar Amer turns to the rich body of Arabic sexological writings to focus, in particular, on their open attitude toward erotic love between women. By juxtaposing these Arabic texts with French works, she reveals a medieval French literary discourse on same-…
Sur "La Farce de Maître Pierre Pathelin"
by Dufournet, Jean, Rousse, Michel
fromUnichamp
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Type: Book
"Li premerains vers": essays in honor of Keith Busby
by Busby, Keith, Jones, Catherine M.
fromFaux titre
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Type: Book
"This volume celebrates the career of Keith Busby, one of the most prominent researchers of medieval French literature of our time, or as one of the contributors states, "one of the true knights errant among us--a scholar defined by the nobility of his intellect who upholds and …
Introduction -- Prudentian personification. Consecratus manu : men forming gods forming men ; How to fight like a girl : Christianizing personification in the Psychomachia -- Neoplatonic personification. Ex uno omnia : Plato's forms and daemons ; Oh, nurse! The Boethian daemon -…
