ISBN:
0820412317
Language:
English
,
French
Pages:
XIV, 166 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
Series Statement:
Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures 3
Series Statement:
Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures
DDC:
398.9/41
Keywords:
Proverbs, French
;
History and criticism
;
Proverbs au comte de Bretagne
;
Gnomic poetry, French
;
History and criticism
;
Peter I. Bretagne, Herzog 1190-1250
;
Peter I. Bretagne, Herzog 1190-1250 Les proverbes au conte de Bretaigne
;
Peter I. Bretagne, Herzog 1190-1250 Les proverbes au conte de Bretaigne
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Kommentar engl., Text altfranz. u. Übers. ins Engl. u. Franz
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