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38 produkter
Short History of French Literature
Av Malcolm Bowie, Terence Cave m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
600 kr
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In this lucid and innovative volume, three distinguished scholars trace this history of French literature from its beginnings to the present day. From the oral, unstable anonymous works of the early Middle Ages via the emergence of a print culture in the Renaissance, through to the attempted …
The Chansons de Geste in the Age of Romance
Political Fictions
Av Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 1995
1226 kr
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This is a major reassessment of the relation between the medieval French chansons de geste and the romance genre.Critics have traditionally seen romance as a superior development of the chanson de geste. The chanson de geste are seen as 'formulaic', composed from a public fund of pre-existant and …
A Short History of French Literature
Av Sarah Kay, Terence Cave m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
2099 kr
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In this lucid and innovative volume, three distinguished scholars trace this history of French literature from its beginnings to the present day. From the oral, unstable anonymous works of the early Middle Ages via the emergence of a print culture in the Renaissance, through to the attempted …
A Short History of French Literature
Av Sarah Kay, Terence Cave m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1092 kr
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This book traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the present. Within its remarkably brief compass, it offers a wide-ranging, personal, and detailed account of major writers and movements. Developments in French literature are presented in an innovative way, not as an even …
Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
Av Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 2017
529 kr
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Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay's exploration of French and Latin bestiaries offers fresh insight into how this …
Pieces of Glass
A Moment of Tragedy, a Lifetime of Faith
Av Sarah Kay
E-bok, 2009
68 kr
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Sometimes joy and grief are separated by mere moments. A last-minute run down a ski slope … a catastrophic accident … and an amazing young man is reduced to a comatose form in a hospital bed. His adoring fiancée remains to weep, pray, grieve, rage, and struggle with the jagged trauma of suffering …
Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry
Av Sarah Kay, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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The songs of the troubadour poets of the south of France were a pervasive influence in the development of the European lyric (and indeed other genres) from the twelfth century to the Renaissance and beyond. Much troubadour poetry is on the topic of love, and is composed from a first-person …
Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry
Av Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 1990
2060 kr
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The songs of the troubadour poets of the south of France were a pervasive influence in the development of the European lyric (and indeed other genres) from the twelfth century to the Renaissance and beyond. Much troubadour poetry is on the topic of love, and is composed from a first-person …
The Troubadours
An Introduction
Av Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 1999
1479 kr
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The dazzling culture of the troubadours - the virtuosity of their songs, the subtlety of their exploration of love, and the glamorous international careers some troubadours enjoyed - fascinated contemporaries and had a lasting influence on European life and literature. Apart from the refined love …
The Troubadours
An Introduction
Av Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay
Häftad, 1999
677 kr
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The dazzling culture of the troubadours - the virtuosity of their songs, the subtlety of their exploration of love, and the glamorous international careers some troubadours enjoyed - fascinated contemporaries and had a lasting influence on European life and literature. Apart from the refined love …
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
Av Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay
Häftad, 2008
542 kr
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Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in …
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
Av Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 2008
1554 kr
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Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in …
Zizek
A Critical Introduction
Av Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 2003
777 kr
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Žižek is hailed as the most significant interdisciplinary thinker of modern times. His work is a powerful, often explosive combination of Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy which tests key psychoanalytical concepts against the ideas of major European thinkers, especially Hegel. It has ignited …
Zizek
A Critical Introduction
Av Sarah Kay
Häftad, 2003
275 kr
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Žižek is hailed as the most significant interdisciplinary thinker of modern times. His work is a powerful, often explosive combination of Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy which tests key psychoanalytical concepts against the ideas of major European thinkers, especially Hegel. It has ignited …
Knowing Poetry
Verse in Medieval France from the "Rose" to the "Rhétoriqueurs"
Av Adrian Armstrong, Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 2011
872 kr
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In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were …
Courtly Contradictions
The Emergence of the Literary Object in the Twelfth Century
Av Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 2002
1113 kr
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Where does courtly literature come from? What is the meaning of "courtly love"? What is the relation between religious and secular culture in the Middle Ages, and why does it matter? This book addresses these questions, as its title indicates, by way of contradiction. Contradiction is central both …
Parrots and Nightingales
Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry
Av Sarah Kay
E-bok, 2013
1668 kr
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The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For Sarah Kay, these poets were nightingales, composing verse that is recognizable yet original. But troubadour poetry also circulated across Europe in a form that is less well …
Place of Thought
The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry
Av Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 2007
920 kr
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From Jean de Meun in the late thirteenth century to Christine de Pizan in the early fifteenth, medieval French poets often aimed to impart theological, philosophical, or moral ideas. To unify their thought, and to make its outline visible to readers, the poets created vivid images of place, such as …
Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
Av Sarah Kay, Simon Gaunt
E-bok, 2008
514 kr
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Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in …
Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
Av Sarah Kay, Simon Gaunt
E-bok, 2008
525 kr
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Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in …
Troubadours
An Introduction
Av Sarah Kay, Simon Gaunt
E-bok, 1999
675 kr
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The dazzling culture of the troubadours - the virtuosity of their songs, the subtlety of their exploration of love, and the glamorous international careers some troubadours enjoyed - fascinated contemporaries and had a lasting influence on European life and literature. Apart from the refined love …
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera
Av Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 2022
668 kr
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Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate …
Astronomy Among the Arts
Reading the Stars in Medieval Culture
Av Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 2027
627 kr
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On The Streets of New York
A Poetic Tour of the City
Av Sarah Kay
Inbunden, 2026, 6-9 år
184 kr
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Blending lyrical text with non-fiction, this book celebrates every aspect of New York City from the crowded streets to sprawling Central Park and the bagel stands to the Statue of Liberty.Written by New York poet Sarah Kay and illustrated with warmth and detail by award-winning artist Ryan Johnson, …
