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Li Proverbes Au Conte de Bretaigne: Critical Edition and Study

Li Proverbes Au Conte de Bretaigne: Critical Edition and Study

Alvarez-Detrell, Tamara
Paulson, Michael G.
Diaféria, Michèle G.

Hardcover

Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, Book 3

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

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ISBN10: 0820412317
ISBN13: 9780820412313
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jul 1 1990
Pages: 166
Language: English
This book focuses on didactic literature. First, the scholarship devoted to gnomic material is reviewed. Then relevant features of the scribal and authorial language are examined to find the approximate date of copy and the region of France wherein copyist and poet originated. The text, fifty-four strophes, each consisting of two tercets which introduce a pithy saying, is edited according to textual principles and supplemented by a rendition into modern French and English translations. It is important to make accessible a critical edition of the Proverbes au conte de Bretaigne that might be of use to those who wish to investigate the linguistic and literary aspects of Old French proverbs. This volume will stimulate students to broaden their knowledge of European gnomic literature beyond the few works devoted to it in literary histories.

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