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Marie de France: Poetry: A Norton Critical Edition

Marie de France: Poetry: A Norton Critical Edition

De France, Marie
Gilbert, Dorothy
Gilbert, Dorothy

Paperback

Series: Norton Critical Editions, Book 0

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0393932680
ISBN13: 9780393932683
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Oct 23 2015
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Winner of the 2016 Northern California Book Award for Translation of Poetry.

Honorable Mention for the 2015 Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize For Translation of a Literary Work.

Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and who lived in England during the twelfth century. Prominent among the earliest poets writing in the French vernacular, Marie de France helped shape the style and genres of later medieval poetry. This Norton Critical Edition includes all of Marie's lais (short narrative verse poems); selected fables; and a generous excerpt from Saint Patrick's Purgatory, a long poem based on a well-known medieval legend. Each text is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. For comparative reading, two lais, Bisclavret and Yönec, are accompanied by Marie's facing-page originals.

Backgrounds and Contexts is thematically organized to provide readers with a clear sense of Marie's inspirations. Topics include The Supernatural, Love and Romance, Medical Traditions, Fable Sources and Analogues: Similar Themes, and Purgatory and the Afterlife. Ovid, Chaucer, Andreas Capellanus, Boccaccio, Aristotle, and Bede are among the authors included.

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