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Sir Launfal: an echo to Breton Lays?
Etudes Epistémè, 2014 Echoes are a distinguishing feature of Middle English Breton lays, which resound with many voices, and hinge around the problem of articulating repetition and variation.
Fanny Moghaddassi
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Etudes Epistémè, 2014 The prologues opening several Middle English Breton lays display both proximity and distance with the Breton lai tradition. The most striking difference lies in the absence of an argument put forward in the prologues of the French poems, which justifies ...
Mireille Séguy
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Romancing the Ghost Story: Reading The Romance of Partenay and Sir Launfal as Medieval Ghost Stories
Nalans, 2022 Medieval people were fascinated with the tales that consist of supernatural elements. There are accounts of supernatural events and characters in various medieval works such as ballads, dream-vision poems, hagiographies, and romances. However, among all,
Pınar Taşdelen
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La musique du vers dans les lais bretons et le décasyllabe du Franklin’s Tale
Etudes Epistémè, 2014 This paper studies Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale, a self-styled Breton lay, and compares it to three typical Middle English Breton lays, Sir Launfal, Sir Orfeo and Lay le Freine. The Franklin’s Tale is written in pentameters while the other three are written
Colette Stévanovitch
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Representations of the Self in the Middle English Breton Lays
Etudes Epistémè, 2014 Starting from the fact that in the time gap between the oldest and the newest of the Breton lays the literary character as such can be seen to emerge, this article goes further to remark that women are the roundest characters.
Joanny Moulin
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Trust, Relationships & Friendly Feelings in Thomas Chestre’s Sir Launfal [PDF]
Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2015 The fourteenth century Breton lai Sir Launfal, written by Thomas Chestre, has been approached from several different direction: honour, gender, knightly ideals, just to name a few; trust, however, has not yet been employed to look at the lai.
Deborah Seiler
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Formulac Expressions in Sir Launfal
Formulac Expressions in Sir LaunfalThis paper aims to make a general survey of formulaic expressions appeariong in a very popular tail-rhyme romance in the Middle Ages. In this genre of literature, there are many types of formulaic expressions including convevtianal word pairs ...
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Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013 This article discusses the ‘fairy’ ladies as lovers, helpers and punishers in Middle English metrical romances. It mainly concentrates on the representations of the fairy ladies Lady Tryamour in Sir Launfal and Melusine in The Romans of Partenay. It discusses how these fairy ladies are presented as lovers, helpers and also as punishers of their lover ...
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