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Volleys of Humanity
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 75.00A selection of important yet previously untranslated and unpublished essays. more...
The Romance of Tristan
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableOne of the earliest extant versions of the Tristan and Yseut story, Beroul?s French manuscript of The Romance of Tristan dates back to the middle of the twelfth century. It recounts the legend of Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, and the king?s Irish wife Yseut, who fall passionately in love after mistakenly drinking a potion. Their illicit... more...
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follows closely a well-documented historical event - the First Crusade - and appears to include substantial and genuine historical content.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...
'Le Roman des Eles', and the Anonymous: 'Ordene de Chevalerie'
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983; US$ 149.00Scholars and students working on the early courtly and chivalric literature of medieval Europe will have often felt the need for contemporary theoretical material with which to illustrate their arguments about courtesy and chivalry in romances, etc. The present volume, which presents critical editions of the two earliest didactic poems of this kind... 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...









