Recueil D'Oeuvres de Francois Guillet - Parution 2015
by Francois Guillet
Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, The Fabliaux depicts priapic priests, randy wives, and their cuckolded husbands in tales that are shocking even by today’s standards. Chaucer and Boccaccio borrowed heavily from these riotous tales, which were the wit of the common man rebelling against the aristocracy and Church...
'La Belle Dame qui eust mercy' and 'Le Dialogue d'amoureux et de sa dame' (Mhra Critical Texts, #60)
Fleurs du Mal (French Texts) (Picador Classics S.)
by Charles Baudelaire
This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection. This book is intended for general readers interested in Baudelaire, French poetry and 19th-century French culture. Students of Baudelaire, French literature.
Cliges is generally thought to be the second of Chretien's Arthurian romances, probably written between 1185-87. This critical edition of Cligesis the first since Wendelin Foerster's in (1884) to take account of all the manuscripts. Based on the Guiot manuscript, it contains many emendations, producing a text closer to that of Chretien's original. Variant apparatus, notes, glossary, and editorial comment on the manuscripts accompany the text. STEWART GREGORY is in the Department of French, Le...
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women. Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry—a format which Baudelaire saw as pa...