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A Queer Omission in Sir Orfeo [PDF]

ELH, 2023
Abstract: Sir Orfeo is a retelling of the Orpheus myth that allows the hero to keep his bride. This paper counters readings of the poem as a vindication of married love by focusing on its reception in the shadow of a significant omission: both Virgil and Ovid state that after losing Eurydice, Orpheus gave up loving women; Ovid adds that Orpheus loved ...
Rory G. Critten
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

The Meaning of “Ympe-Tree” in Sir Orfeo [PDF]

Alfinge: Revista De Filología, 2003
En este breve artículo me propongo arrojar alguna luz sobre el debatido significado e interpretación de la palabra “ympe-íre(e)” en el poema medieval inglés Sir Orfeo, de principios del siglo XIV. El poema, que pervive en tres copias de unos 600 versos está basado en el Orfeo y Ettridice de la mitología clásica, pero adaptado al mundo medieval ...
Vicente López Folgado
exaly   +6 more sources

Echoes of ‘Nemi’? Patterns of Challenge, Sexual Violence and Substitution in Sir Orfeo and Sir Degaré

Etudes Epistémè, 2014
This essay examines patterns involving challenge, single combat, substitutions, paternity, sovereignty, tree symbolism and raptus in the Middle English Breton lays Sir Orfeo and Sir Degaré through the lens of Frazer’s The Golden Bough, and specifically ...
Sharon Rowley
doaj   +3 more sources

Stepwise Acetylene Insertion and Ammonia Activation at a Digallene and Diindene. [PDF]

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
The stepwise insertion of acetylene into the E═E bonds of digallenes and diindenes is reported. This leads to the selective formation of four‐ and six‐membered rings with 2π E2C2 and 4π E2C4 cores. The six‐membered cyclohexadiene analogues are Lewis‐acidic and can form stable, isolable adducts with ammonia, which—upon heating—undergo ammonolysis ...
García-Romero Á, Fernández I, Goicoechea JM.   +2 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

UEG Week 2023 Poster Presentations [PDF]

United European Gastroenterol J, 2023
United European Gastroenterology Journal, Volume 11, Issue S8, Page 535-1498, October 2023.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Sir Orfeo

Em Tese
A presente tradução oferece pela primeira vez ao leitor de língua portuguesa o poema medieval Sir Orfeo (c. séc. XIV), uma lay, ou uma balada bretã, que possivelmente se trata de uma tradução a partir de um original em francês, atualmente perdido.
S. Sant'Ana
openaire   +2 more sources

Le passé recomposé des lais bretons en moyen-anglais : Le Lay le Freine, Sir Orfeo, Sir Degaré, Sir Launfal et The Franklin’s Tale

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
doaj   +2 more sources

Insular sources and analogues of the otherworld in the middle english Sir Orfeo

The Grove, 2018
The Middle English Sir Orfeo presents a medievalized version of the classical myth of Orpheus that shows the influence of Celtic lore. Modern scholars seem to have accepted the views of A. J.
Jordi Sánchez Martí
doaj   +2 more sources

Space as memento mori in Sir Orfeo

Bulletin des anglicistes médiévistes, 2019
Yvernault Martine. Space as memento mori in Sir Orfeo. In: Bulletin des anglicistes médiévistes, N°94,2019. Fashioning medieval space. pp. 171-198.
Martine Yvernault
openaire   +3 more sources

Sir Orfeo in the Otherworld: Courting Chaos? [PDF]

Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 2004
N. Cartlidge
openaire   +3 more sources