Lays of Marie de France (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Slavitt, David R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The twelve "e;lays"e; of Marie de France, the earliest known French woman poet, are here presented in sprightly English verse by poet and translator David R. Slavitt. Traditional Breton folktales were the raw material for Marie de France's series of lively but profound considerations of love, life, death, fidelity and betrayal, and luck and fate. They offer acute observations about the choices that women make, startling in the late twelfth century and challenging even today. Combining a woman's wisdom with an impressive technical bravura, the lays are a minor treasure of European culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Athabasca University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781927356371
• Artikelnr.: 39932728

Autorenporträt

David R. Slavitt is a widely known poet, novelist,critic, and translator. He prepared these English versions of the laysof Marie de France because he loved them.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword- vii
THE LAYS OF MARIE DE FRANCE
Prologue- 3
I. Guigemar
I. Guigemar- 5
II. Equitan- 27
III. Le Fresne- 35
IV. Bisclavret- 47
V. Lanval- 55
VI. The Two Lovers- 71
VII. Yonec- 77
VIII. Laüstic- 89
IX. Milun- 93
X. Chaitivel- 105
XI. Chevrefoil- 111
XII. Eliduc- 115
For Further Reading- 147