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Beschreibung

Written approximately between 1150 and 1450, the Middle English Breton Lays emulate the Lais of Marie de France, regarded as one of the first female writers to compose poetry in her own vernacular language. Following the lai genre, these Middle English poems are short, rhymed narratives of love, marriage, and chivalry, often involving encounters with fairies and other Celtic supernatural figures. Each of the eight poems in this volume--Sir Orfeo, Lay le Freine, Sir Degare, Emare, Sir Launfal, Sir Gowther, Erle of Tolous, and Sir Cleges--reveal differences in dialect that showcase the complexity of the Breton Lay genre as representative of different English regional areas and manuscripts, and the overarching themes of each lay offer insights into medieval English family values, interpersonal morals, and romantic ideals. This edition improves upon its predecessors by furnishing introductory readers with detailed introductory statements and notes for each of the lays.

Written approximately between 1150 and 1450, the Middle English Breton Lays emulate the Lais of Marie de France, regarded as one of the first female writers to compose poetry in her own vernacular language. Following the lai genre, these Middle English poems are short, rhymed narratives of love, marriage, and chivalry, often involving encounters with fairies and other Celtic supernatural figures. Each of the eight poems in this volume--Sir Orfeo, Lay le Freine, Sir Degare, Emare, Sir Launfal, Sir Gowther, Erle of Tolous, and Sir Cleges--reveal differences in dialect that showcase the complexity of the Breton Lay genre as representative of different English regional areas and manuscripts, and the overarching themes of each lay offer insights into medieval English family values, interpersonal morals, and romantic ideals. This edition improves upon its predecessors by furnishing introductory readers with detailed introductory statements and notes for each of the lays.

Über den Autor
Anne Laskaya is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon. Her publications include also Chaucer's Approach to Gender in The Canterbury Tales, Cambridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, D.S. Brewer, 1995; The World of Literature, a textbook co-edited with Louise Westling, Stephen Durrant, James Earl, Stephen Kohl, and Steven Shankman, Prentice-Hall, 1999; "The Rhetoric of Incest in the Middle English Emare," 1998; "Wrangling Parliaments: Lesbian Studies and Medieval Studies," in The Lesbian Premodern, ed. Gaffney, et al, 2011. Work in progress: Caxton's Mirror of the World, a scholarly edition under contract with Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University Press; "Ekphrasis and Orientalism in the Middle English Emare." Eve Salisbury is Professor of English at Western Michigan University where she teaches the works of late medieval poets-Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Gower, Christine de Pizan, and Marie de France-Middle English and Arthurian literature, Medieval Literary Theory, British Literature I, and Medieval Drama. She has also taught a graduate seminar on medieval marriage at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Her publications include three volumes for the Middle English Text Series-The Trials and Joys of Marriage, Four Romances of England, and The Middle English Breton Lays-an edited collection, Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts, in which her essay on Chaucer's 'wife' and the law appears, and essays in journals such as Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, a monograph series (Speculum Sermonis), and special collections on medieval violence. She has written book reviews for Speculum and reviewed submissions for PMLA, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Chaucer Review, and Brepols.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN-13: 9781879288621
ISBN-10: 1879288621
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Laskaya, Anne
Salisbury, Eve
Hersteller: ISD International - IPSUK
Medieval Institute Publications
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 259 x 179 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Anne Laskaya (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.1995
Gewicht: 0,804 kg
Artikel-ID: 127850576