Tirant Lo Blanc

Tirant Lo Blanc
Author: Joanot Martorell
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 844
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This translation, by Ray La Fontaine, is the first English version in the five-hundred year history of Tirant lo Blanc. Accurate readable, and complete, it opens a window to a world of remarkable originality.

The Book of the Knight Zifar

The Book of the Knight Zifar
Author: Charles L. Nelson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 081316415X

The Book of the Knight Zifar (or Cifar), Spain's first novel of chivalry, is the tale of a virtuous but unfortunate knight who has fallen from grace and must seek redemption through suffering and good deeds. Because of a curse that repeatedly deprives him of that most important of knightly accoutrements—his horse—Zifar and his family must flee their native India and wander through distant lands seeking to regain their rank and fortune. A series of mishaps divides the family, and the novel follows their separate adventures—alternatively heroic, comic, and miraculous—until at length they are reunited and their honor restored. The anonymous author of Zifar based his early fourteenth-century novel on the medieval story of the life of St. Eustacius, but onto this trunk he grafted a surprising variety of narrative types: Oriental tales of romance and magic, biblical stories, moralizing fables popular since the Middle Ages, including several from Aesop, and instructions in the rules of proper knightly conduct. Humor in the form of puns, jokes, and old proverbs also runs through the novel. In particular, the foolish/wise Knave offers a comic contrast to the heroic Knight, whom he must continually rescue through the application of common sense. Zifar was to have an important influence on later Spanish literature, and perhaps on Cervantes' great tale of a knight and his squire, Don Quixote. All those with an interest in Spanish literature and medieval life will be grateful for Mr. Nelson's excellent translation, which brings to life this extraordinary early novel.

Tirant Lo Blanc

Tirant Lo Blanc
Author: Joanot Martorell
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 728
Release: 1984
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

First published in the Catalan language in Valencia in 1490, Tirant lo Blanc ("The White Tyrant") is a sweeping epic of chivalry and high adventure. With great precision and verve, Martorell narrates land and sea battles, duels, hunts, banquets, political

Tirant Lo Blanch

Tirant Lo Blanch
Author: Joseph Anthony Vaeth
Publisher: Columbia University Studies in Romance Philology and Literature
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1918
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Studies the romance, Tirant lo Blanch, from its authorship, principal sources, and historical setting.

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
Author: Louis de Bernieres
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2012-06-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307822362

This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling Corelli's Mandolin is set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Dona Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny. "Walks a precarious edge between slapstick and pathos, never once losing its balance."--Washington Post Book World.

Current Perspectives on Literary Reading

Current Perspectives on Literary Reading
Author: Dari Escandell
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2019-11-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027261849

This collection aims to provide answers regarding what the most recent trends are in research in literary reading. Based on that premise, it contains a rigorously selected and varied roster of investigations that focus on presenting and attempting to interpret and understand the most recent literary trends or tendencies, as well as the reasons for the propensities they create among the masses of young and adult readers. This selection of texts in English, Catalan and Spanish will give the reading specialist an idea of where today’s trends are headed, and how they point towards the formation of a new paradigm in matters of literature.

Tirant Lo Blanc

Tirant Lo Blanc
Author: Arthur Terry
Publisher: Tamesis
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781855660687

New interpretations of the text and context of the 15c Catalan romance telling of Tirant's heroic exploits and adventures in love. In Don Quixote, Cervantes describes Tirant lo Blanc as `the best book in the world'. A remarkable work of fiction, probably the finest to appear anywhere in Europe before Rabelais, it has recently become increasinglyfamiliar to English readers. However, it is a problematic book to categorise: on the one hand, it is an exciting story of Tirant's military exploits and his love for the Princess Carmesina; on the other, it is an encyclopedic work treating many aspects of late fifteenth-century society in vivid detail. The essays collected in this volume offer a variety of fresh interpretations. They cover a vast amount of material, from questions of authorship toclose readings of particular episodes, bringing a varietyof new interpretations to bear. ARTHUR TERRY is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of Essex. Contributors: RAFAEL BELTRAN, JOSEP GUIA, THOMASR. HART, ALBERT G. HAUF, JEREMY LAWRANCE, MONTSERRAT PIERA, JOSEP PUJOL, JESUS D. RODRIGUEZ VELASCO, MARIA JESUS RUBIERA Y MATA, ARTHUR TERRY, CURT WITTLIN

Tirant Lo Blanc

Tirant Lo Blanc
Author: Josep María Sola-Solé
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1993
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

"Held in October 1991, under the sponsorship of the Center for Catalan Studies at The Catholic University of America"--P. [4] of cover.