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Katalog der Texte. Jüngerer Teil (I - R)
De Gruyter 1988; US$ 266.00Repertorium der Sangsprüche und Meisterlieder des 12. bis 18. Jahrhunderts / Bd. 8, Katalog der Texte : Jüngerer Teil : I-R. more...
Violent Passions
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 95.00This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn. more...
Charles d'Orléans in England (1415-1440)
Boydell & Brewer 2000; US$ 99.00Charles, duc d'Orléans, prince and poet, was a captive in England for twenty-five years following the battle of Agincourt. The studies in this volume, by European and American scholars, focus on his life and actions during that time, and show him as a serious and learned reader, a cunning political figure (accomplished in the skills that would impress... more...
How to Live
Other Press 2010;Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and... more...
Le roman de Renart
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 252.00This book provides a critical edition of the 'O' manuscript (beginning of the 14th century) of the Roman de Renart. It is supplemented by a varia lectio which takes into account the different readings of the most important 'branches' or short texts of the Roman de Renart. The edition includes an introduction of the work from the perspective of literary... more...
Räume der rêverie
Narr Francke Attempto 2011; US$ 105.68Hauptbeschreibung Ausgehend von einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem in der deutschsprachigen Romanistik vorherrschenden Bild der modernen Lyrik unternimmt die Studie den Versuch, die Geschichte der französischen Lyrik von der Romantik bis zum Surrealismus neu zu begreifen. Als zentrales Analyse-Paradigma dient dabei die Untersuchung der Rolle... 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 Anonymous Marie de France
University of Chicago Press 2006; US$ 30.00This book by one of our most admired and influential medievalists offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. The Anonymous Marie de France is the first work to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais , her 103 animal... 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...
An Anthology of Modern French Poetry (18501950)
Cambridge University Press 1976; US$ 38.00This anthology is the companion volume to The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry, the aim of which was to give detailed preliminary help with the problems of poetic appreciation. The fourteen poets represented here provide a varied and exciting introduction to what is probably the richest century of French poetry, from 1850 to 1950. Hugo, the colossus... more...









