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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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Appropriating the Classical Underworld: The Otherworld and its Spectacle in 'Sir Orfeo' [PDF]

Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2014
In the Middle English Breton lay, Sir Orfeo (c. 1340), the Underworld transforms from its classical prototype of an ominous realm of shadows into the marvellous Otherworld.
Blythe Hsing-wen Tsai
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Reading and Writing in Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Mary C. Erler. Edited by Martin Chase and Maryanne Kowaleski. Boydell. 2019. 267pp. £60.00.

, 2020
History, Volume 105, Issue 366, Page 499-501, July 2020.
BRETT MOTTRAM
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(Re)considering Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice as a Dream Vision

Nalans, 2022
This study aims to reconsider the Scottish poet Robert Henryson’s retelling of the myth of Orpheus in his Orpheus and Eurydice (c. 1470) as a late example of medieval dream vision genre. There are two prominent versions of the myth in the medieval world:
Seher Aktarer
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Merchant’s Tale", Giovanni Boccaccio’s "The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree", and "Sir Orfeo" Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives

Text Matters, 2013
Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong.
Andrzej Wicher
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Beyond What We Know: On Epistemic Limits in Sir Orfeo

Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines
From Orfeo’s gradual realisation of his wife Heurodis’s inevitable departure, to his discovery of the wonders of the fairy world and the possibility of reunion, the flow of information and knowledge is key to the narrative dynamics of the fourteenth ...
Michael Reid
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Defamiliarizing Romance: The Arabic sīra in the English Literary Classroom

Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 7-9, July-September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article explores the ways in which the Arabic sīra a genre loosely akin to the romance or chivalric epic can be incorporated into undergraduate teaching on medieval romance. Drawing on my own pedagogical experience and guided by ongoing critical work on decolonising and diversifying the curriculum, I demonstrate the values and challenges ...
Shazia Jagot
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The once and future fairie king : reading Sir Orfeo as a political allegory

, 2023
In this thesis I analyze the depiction of fairies in Sir Orfeo, an anonymously composed Middle English Breton lay. In previous scholarly analyses of Sir Orfeo, the wider historical context of the lay’s composition is rarely treated as a source of ...
Tastad, Anne Victoria
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Sir Orfeo, il “King of Fairy” e Andrea Cappellano. Quellenforschung e intertestualità nel Lay d’Orphey

, 2004
Analisi degli elementi che collegano il Lai medio-inglese Sir Orfeo alla tradizione classica, a quella medievale dell'amore cortese, alla letteratura folclorica ...
LECCO, MARGHERITA
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