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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > Classical, early & medieval
A classic college textbook containing a judicious selection from the whole field of Roman elegy, with introductory matter and English commentary. It helps the student obtain a general acquaintance with Roman elegiac poetry, and features the writings of Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid.
This revelatory exploration of Book One of the "Argonautica"
rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of
Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the
question, "Who is the best of the Argonauts?" Apollonius redefines
the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more realistic and less
awesome than his Homeric predecessors, one who is vulnerable,
dependent on the help of others, even morally questionable, yet
ultimately successful.
The question of the "dramatic principle" in the "Canterbury Tales,"
of whether and how the individual tales relate to the pilgrims who
are supposed to tell them, has long been a central issue in the
interpretation of Chaucer's work. Drawing on ideas from
deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and social theory, Leicester
proposes that Chaucer can lead us beyond the impasses of
contemporary literary theory and suggests new approaches to
questions of agency, representation, and the gendered
imagination.
This book presents translations of four major practitioners of octosyllabic verse, the dominant literary form of 12th- and 13th-century France. The introduction discusses the varying views of women and love in the texts and their place in the courtly tradition.;From Chretien de Troyes Terry includes an early work, "Philomena". The other great writer of this period was Marie de France, the first woman in the European narrative tradition. "Lanval" is newly translated for this edition, which also features four of Marie's other poems. The collection includes "The Reflection" by Jean Renart, known for his real settings; and the anonymous "Chatelaine of Vergi", a fatalistic and perhaps more modern depiction of love.
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