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volume 2 : Dans la continuité du volume I, consacré aux Seuils de l'œuvre dans le texte médiéval, ce second (et dernier) recueil s'intéresse plus spécialement aux rapports entre le texte de prologue et le statut générique des œuvres qu'il introduit. La ligne directrice des études ici réunies a été de mettre en évidence la diversité, la plasticité, la capacité d'adaptation dont témoigne, du XIIe au XVe siècle ce " rituel du seuil " que l'on aurait pu croire figé.

Literature --- anno 1200-1499 --- Medieval literature --- French literature --- Prologues and epilogues --- History and criticism. --- Criticism, Textual --- History and criticism --- Medieval literature - History and criticism --- French literature - To 1500 - Criticism, Textual --- Prologues and epilogues - History and criticism --- Criticism, Textual.

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Hermeneutics --- Prologues and epilogues --- Herméneutique --- Prologues et épilogues --- Religious aspects --- History and criticism --- Aspect religieux --- Histoire et critique --- Laplanche, François --- Religious literature --- Philosophical literature --- Herméneutique --- Prologues et épilogues --- Laplanche, François --- Religious literature - History and criticism --- Philosophical literature - History and criticism --- Prologues and epilogues - History and criticism

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The prologue to Layamon's Brut recounts its author's extensive travels "wide yond thas leode" (far and wide across the land) to gather the French, Latin and English books he used as source material. The first Middle English writer to discuss his methods of translating French into English, Layamon voices ideas about the creation of a new English tradition by translation that proved very durable.
This book considers the practice of translation from French into English in medieval England, and how the translators themselves viewed their task. At its core is a corpus of French to English translations containing translator's prologues written between c.1189 and c.1450; this remarkable body of Middle English literary theory provides a useful map by which to chart the movement from aliterary culture rooted in Anglo-Norman at the end of the thirteenth century to what, in the fifteenth, is regarded as an established "English" tradition. Considering earlier Romance and Germanic models of translation, wider historical evidence about translation practice, the acquisition of French, the possible role of women translators, and the manuscript tradition of prologues, in addition to offering a broader, pan-European perspective through an examination of Middle Dutch prologues, the book uses translators' prologues as a lens through which to view a period of critical growth and development for English as a literary language.

Elizabeth Dearnley gained her PhD from the University of Cambridge.

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This book is an attempt to discover the origins and significance of the General Prologue-to the Canterbury Tales. The interest of such an inquiry is many-sided. On the one hand, it throws light on the question of whether `life' or 'literature' was Chaucer's model in this work, on the relationship between Chaucer's twenty-odd pilgrims and the structure of medieval society, and on the role of their `estate' in determining the elements of which Chaucer composes their portraits. On the other hand, it makes suggestions about the ways in which Chaucer convinces us of the individuality of his pilgrims, about the nature of his irony, and the kind of moral standards implicit in the Prologue. This book suggests that Chaucer is ironically substituting for the traditional moral view of social structure a vision of a world where morality becomes as specialised to the individual as his work-life.

Chaucer, Geoffrey --- Estates (Social orders) --- Prologues and epilogues --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature --- Satire, Medieval --- Tales, Medieval --- Social history --- Social problems in literature --- Social classes in literature --- Satire --- History --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Political and social views --- -Social classes in literature --- -Social problems in literature --- -Satire --- -Prologues and epilogues --- -Estates (Social orders) --- -Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Sociology --- Medieval satire --- Commons (Social order) --- Feudalism --- Epilogues --- Postscripts (Epilogues) --- Prefaces --- Comic literature --- Literature --- Wit and humor --- Invective --- Medieval tales --- -Chaucer, Geoffrey --- -Political and social views --- -History and criticism --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. --- Social problems in literature. --- Social classes in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects. --- Political and social views. --- -Commons (Social order) --- Descriptive sociology --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Arts and Humanities --- Estates (Social orders) - England - History - To 1500 --- Prologues and epilogues - History and criticism --- Satire, Medieval - History and criticism --- Tales, Medieval - History and criticism --- Social history - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Satire - Religious aspects --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, - -1400 - Canterbury tales - Prologue --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, - -1400 - Political and social views --- CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), d. 1400 --- LITERATURE AND SOCIETY --- CANTERBURY TALES --- PROLOGUE --- ENGLAND --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, - -1400