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Title French Arthurian literature. Volume IV, Eleven Old French narrative lays / edited and translated by Glyn S. Burgess and Leslie C. Brook ; with the collaboration of Amanda Hopkins for Melion
Published Cambridge ; Rochester, N.Y. : D.S. Brewer, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (529 pages)
Series Arthurian archives ; [14]
Arthurian archives ; 14.
Contents Desiré -- Tyolet -- Guingamor -- Espine -- Doon -- Lecheor -- Tydorel -- Graelent -- Melion -- Nabaret -- Trot
Summary "The lay was a flourishing genre in the French courts of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, related to romance rather as the modern short story is to the novel. Its most famous exponent is arguably Marie de France, but in addition to her twelve lays, a number of authors, mainly anonymous, have also come down to us, usually referred to as Breton lays or simply as narrative lays." "The eleven anonymous lays presented in this volume show the varied nature of the genre. First brought together as a collection by Prudence Tobin in 1976, they have been freshly edited from the manuscript sources. They are presented here with facing English translation, together with substantial introductions for each lay, which deal principally with thematic issues and questions of general literary interest."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-526) and index
Notes Text in English with parallel Old French and English translations of the lays
Subject Lays.
Lays -- Translations into English
French poetry -- To 1500.
French poetry -- To 1500 -- Translations into English
18.25 French literature.
POETRY -- Continental European.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
French poetry.
Lays.
Genre/Form poetry.
Poetry.
Lays (Narrative poetry)
Translations.
Translations (form)
Poems (texts)
Lays (Narrative poetry)
Poetry.
Lais.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
Author Burgess, Glyn S. (Glyn Sheridan)
Brook, Leslie C.
Hopkins, Amanda, 1962-
LC no. 2007278230
ISBN 9781846155437
1846155436
1282185403
9781282185401
9786612185403
6612185406
Other Titles French literature. IV, Old French narrative lays
Old French narrative lays
Eleven Old French narrative lays