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The Chanson d'Antioche
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95This is the first translation into English of the Old French Chanson d'Antioche, a text which has long intrigued historians and literary scholars. Uniquely among epic poems, it follows closely a well-documented historical event - the First Crusade - and appears to include substantial and genuine historical content. The introduction assesses the... more...
Erec and Enide
University of California Press 1992; US$ 26.95In 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... more...
The Interlace Structure of the Third Part of the Prose Lancelot
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 99.00The intricate structure and the many different narrative threads of the Prose 'Lancelot'> are here skilfully analysed, showing them to be a major new development in literary technique. more...
American Creoles
Liverpool University Press 2012; US$ 57.00This book examines the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, considering figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, Maryse Condé and Lafcadio Hearn. more...
French Global
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 31.99Is it possible to reread the entire sweep of French literature from a world perspective? Recasting French literary history in terms of the cultures and peoples that interacted both within and outside of France's national boundaries, this volume offers a new way of looking at the history of a national literature, along with a truly global and contemporary... more...
Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 90.00This co-written book challenges assumptions about Chrétien. In lively exchanges, its five authors reassess the relationship between lyric and romance, between individuality and social conditions, and between psychology and medieval philosophy. more...
Marie de France
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 90.00This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates. more...
The Methods of Medieval Translators
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 179.95This monograph examines the medieval French translation/adaptation of Virgils Aeneid. The work employs Relevance Theory, second language pedagogy and hermeneutics in its analysis. more...
The 'Continuations' of Chrétien's 'Perceval'
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 95.00The notion of Continuation in medieval literature is a familiar one - but difficult to define precisely. Despite the existence of important texts which are commonly referred to as Continuations, such as Le Roman de la Rose , Le Chevalier de la Charrette and, of course, the Perceval Continuations , the mechanics and processes involved in actually producing... more...
Lécriture feminine au XVIe siècle, en France
The Edwin Mellen Press 2008; US$ 169.95The purpose of the present work is the study of the access of women to literature in sixteenth-century France, a period not considered to be conducive to the awakening of female writers. This book focuses on the different steps of personal writing and the analysis of the womens literary work. This book contains seven color photographs and six... more...









