Author: Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua
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ISBN: 9782953366419
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Languages : fr
Pages : 572
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" On approchait du soir qui allait marquer le dixième jour où le chevalier Zifar avait gagné le cheval qu'il montait. Ainsi, alors qu'ils bavardaient, le cheval s'écroula, mort, sur le sol. Le chevalier Zifar eut juste le temps de sauter à terre et de s'en écarter. "Que s'est-il passé? s'inquiéta le seigneur de l'armée. - Cela me colle à la peau, répondit le chevalier Zifar. Il pèse sur moi une telle fatalité qu'aucun cheval ni aucune bête ne me dure plus de dix jours."" Le chevalier Zifar est maudit : tous les dix jours, son cheval meurt. Accablé de malheurs, mais soutenu par sa vertueuse épouse, il abandonne sa terre, en quête de vérité et d'honneur. Au cours de son errance, le valeureux chevalier sera mis à l'épreuve par Dieu de mille façons. Libérateur de la ville de Galapia et de sa reine, il se fera passer pour un fou afin d'infiltrer le royaume de Menton assiégé ; flanqué d'un habile compagnon, aussi bavard que malin, il se battra contre les plus grands chevaliers et deviendra roi. Séparé de sa femme - enlevée par les pirates -, et de ses enfants - l'un est croqué par un lion tandis que l'autre disparaît dans une ville inconnue -, il devra accepter tours et détours pour retrouver sa famille et clore ses aventures. A moins qu'une nouvelle histoire ne commence...? Roman de chevalerie écrit à l'orée du XIVe siècle, au ton vif et souvent ironique, flirtant parfois avec le fantastique, le Livre du chevalier Zifar est tantôt récit d'aventures et de batailles, flirtant parfois avec le fantastique, tantôt roman d'apprentissage fleuri d'anecdotes et de contes. Traduit du castillan médiéval par Jean-Marie Barberà (à qui l'on doit déjà Tirant le blanc), accompagné d'un essai de Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua et magnifiquement illustré par Zeina Abirached (auteur du Jeu des hirondelles), le Livre du chevalier Zifar est un joyau. ?
Author: Charles L. Nelson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081316415X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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The Book of the Knight Zifar (or Cifar), Spain's first novel of chivalry, is the tale of a virtuous but unfortunate knight who has fallen from grace and must seek redemption through suffering and good deeds. Because of a curse that repeatedly deprives him of that most important of knightly accoutrements—his horse—Zifar and his family must flee their native India and wander through distant lands seeking to regain their rank and fortune. A series of mishaps divides the family, and the novel follows their separate adventures—alternatively heroic, comic, and miraculous—until at length they are reunited and their honor restored. The anonymous author of Zifar based his early fourteenth-century novel on the medieval story of the life of St. Eustacius, but onto this trunk he grafted a surprising variety of narrative types: Oriental tales of romance and magic, biblical stories, moralizing fables popular since the Middle Ages, including several from Aesop, and instructions in the rules of proper knightly conduct. Humor in the form of puns, jokes, and old proverbs also runs through the novel. In particular, the foolish/wise Knave offers a comic contrast to the heroic Knight, whom he must continually rescue through the application of common sense. Zifar was to have an important influence on later Spanish literature, and perhaps on Cervantes' great tale of a knight and his squire, Don Quixote. All those with an interest in Spanish literature and medieval life will be grateful for Mr. Nelson's excellent translation, which brings to life this extraordinary early novel.
Author: Michael Paul Harney
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Author: Marilyn A. Olsen
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: Annie Combes
Publisher: Editions Classiques Garnier
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Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : it
Pages : 358
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Ce volume explore les différentes formes de réécriture dont a fait l'objet Chrétien de Troyes, abordant aussi bien le rôle des critiques que les modalités de la reprise. La gamme va des cas d'intertextualité stricte à l'interdiscursivité et l'interculturalité où affleurent l'histoire et le mythe.
Author: Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479308
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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This new Companion introduces the most important medieval vernacular literary genre in Britain and continental Europe.
Author: John E. Keller
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813165296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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The masterpieces of medieval Spanish literature have come to be known and loved by Hispanists, and more recently by others throughout the world. But the brilliant illuminations with which the original manuscripts were illustrated have remained almost totally unknown on the shelves of the great European libraries. To redress this woeful neglect, two noted scholars here present a generous selection from this great visual treasury including many examples never before reproduced. John E. Keller and Richard P. Kinkade have chosen five representative works, dating from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth, to illustrate the richness of early Spanish narrative art. Together, these five works encompass the entire range of narrative techniques and iconography to be found in medieval Spain, and reflect both foreign and native Spanish artistic tendencies. The authors' analyses of the relation between verbalizations and visualizations will provide students of medieval art and literature a wealth of new information expanding our knowledge of this fascinating period. The beauty of many of the illuminations speaks for itself.
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Category : Romance literature
Languages : it
Pages : 484
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Author: Ricarda Wagner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110645718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
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What can stories of magical engraved rings or prophetic inscriptions on walls tell us about how writing was perceived before print transformed the world? Writing beyond Pen and Parchment introduces readers to a Middle Ages where writing is not confined to manuscripts but is inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. Drawing on the work done at the Collaborative Research Centre “Material Text Cultures,” (SFB 933) this volume presents a comparative overview of how and where text-bearing artefacts appear in medieval German, Old Norse, British, French, Italian and Iberian literary traditions, and also traces the paths inscribed objects chart across multiple linguistic and cultural traditions. The volume’s focus on the raw materials and practices that shaped artefacts both mundane or fantastical in medieval narratives offers a fresh perspective on the medieval world that takes seriously the vibrancy of matter as a vital aspect of textual culture often overlooked.
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Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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