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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Marie De France"”.
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Encountering the Marvelous in Marie De France
… of the marvelous encounter in the Lais of Marie de France, a collection of twelve short narratives attributed to the twelfth century. Four of the lais – Guigemar, Bisclavret, Lanval, and Yonec - were selected for close analysis of the marvelous motifs and themes that are central to each …
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Function and meaning of metamorphosis in the Lais of Marie de France
… with special reference to the Lais of Marie de France. In Chapter 1 the all-pervasive nature of Metamorphosis is examined. Attention is focused on the fact that Metamorphosis occurs in all spheres: it may be seen in Nature, in physical development and in many less visible forms such as …
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„Hin mætasta í öllum kurteisra kvenna kvenskum.“ Konur og hirðleg ást í ljóðsögum Marie de France
… þeirra sagna sem finna má í safninu eru eignaðar Marie de France. Með þýðingu Strengleika, ásamt örfáum fyrri verkum, komust Norðmenn í kynni við heim riddarabókmennta sem var þeim bæði fjarlægur og framandi. Ólíkt því sem áður hafði tíðkast innan norrænna bókmennta höfðu tilfinningar og ástir nú …
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Healing leaves
Medieval French literature provides the modern researcher with references to the healing arts in many passages that are incorporated into prose or poetic works. Because there was no clear separation of the genres into modern classifications, references to treatment of sicknesses of body, mind or …
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Perceptions of Annwn : the otherworld in the four branches of the Mabinogi.
There is little description or positive information about the realm of Annwn in the Four Branches, and relatively few publications have explored the Otherworld in the Mabinogi in any depth. The redactor presumably did not deem such detail necessary since in his time the Otherworld was a place …
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A dama bruxa : representações do imaginário sobre a personagem feminina medieval franco-bretã e seus ecos residuais na literatura nordestina do século XX
… em literatura, sempre nos indagamos sobre seu poder influenciador nos diversos âmbitos sociais, muito além do hábito de leitura. Como agente formador e transformador de sujeitos, as obras literárias propagam ideias e comunicam ideologias através de seus enredos e personagens, se inspirando [e …
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The Evolution of Marie de France's Lanval
… writers have translated and reinterpreted Marie de France's Lanval. This lai in is the second most frequently translated throughout the medieval era and it continues to be reimagined and retold. All of the translations and reimagined renditions of the Lanval story have in common a strange …
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Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature
… period in which many eucharistic doctrines were debated and affirmed, literary scholars have given very little attention to the concurrent emergence of eucharistic themes in twelfth-century literature. This is unfortunate, since the Eucharist emerges as an intriguing motif, appearing in fantastic …