Yvain; Or, the Knight with the Lion
Author | : Chrétien de Troyes |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820340553 |
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This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a genre, Chrétien is revealed in this work as a witty, versatile writer who mastered both the soaring flight of emotion and the devastating aside and was as skillful a debater of the finer points of love as he was a describer of battles.