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Marie De France: A Critical Companion
Profesor Sharon Kinoshita
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Description for Marie De France: A Critical Companion
Hardback.
This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates. Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to survive from the middle ages; arguably best-known for her Lais, she also translated Aesop's Fables (the Ysopë), and wrote the Espurgatoire seint Patriz (St Patrick's Purgatory), based on a Latin text. The aim of this Companion is both to provide information on what can be gleaned of her life, and on her poetry, and to rethink standard questions of interpretation, through topics with special relevance ... Read more
This new companion to the works of Marie de France offers fresh insights into the standard critical debates. Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to survive from the middle ages; arguably best-known for her Lais, she also translated Aesop's Fables (the Ysopë), and wrote the Espurgatoire seint Patriz (St Patrick's Purgatory), based on a Latin text. The aim of this Companion is both to provide information on what can be gleaned of her life, and on her poetry, and to rethink standard questions of interpretation, through topics with special relevance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843843016
SKU
V9781843843016
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99-50
Reviews for Marie De France: A Critical Companion
[This] volume is well written and informative throughout and succeeds in its stated aim [...] of catering for the needs of the student, the scholar, and the general reader.
FRENCH STUDIES
Kinoshita and McCracken challenge readers to rethink their understanding of Marie de France and her works based on cultural, social, and political concerns of the period in ... Read more
FRENCH STUDIES
Kinoshita and McCracken challenge readers to rethink their understanding of Marie de France and her works based on cultural, social, and political concerns of the period in ... Read more