Raoul de Cambrai
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198158688 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 606 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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disregard other review A Customer The other review of this book, by the "French student" should really be deleted, or at least ignored. The original text is not by Chretien de Troyes, a romance author. The original is an epic, and the repetitions referred to are a classic part of epic style - they are known as "formulas", and are found in Homer as well (who's u. A Customer said the french text. HI i'm a french studient and I studie this book in the Arras University ( Arras is near of Cambrai) Unluckily, I never read the American translation but I can you say that the original text is boring because the author, Chrétien de Troyes, repeats enormously the same sentences, and we are under the impression that the st
Portraying a nightmare world of social disintegration and ethical uncertainty, the poem has never before been translated into English.. This is a new edition--with facing-page translation, introduction, and index of proper names--of the Old French Raoul de Cambral, one of the most violent and passionate epic poems of the turn of the thirteenth century
4, 1992-1996 . Burgess, University of Liverpool, Synopsis, Vol. 47`a long-awaited and much needed critical edn of Raoul, with an English prose translation en face, which is very readable yet remains sufficiently close to the Old FrenchA very lucid summary of a complex text precedes a lit. `With clear and authoritative readings, based partly on new manuscript material unknown to earlier editors Kay's facing prose translation skilfully renders an original which is frequently contorted by the imperatives of
Sarah Kay is at Girton College, Cambridge.