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Marie De France - də fräNs, fl. 1155–90, poet. Born in France, she spent her adult life in England in aristocratic circles and wrote in Anglo-Norman. She is best known for some dozen lais; several are of Celtic origin, and some are Arthurian.

See Lais, ed. by A. Ewert (1944). See translations by J. L. Weston (1900), E. Rickert (1901), and E. Mason (1911); study by E. J

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Abbreviated Style and Les Lais De Marie De France, in Romance Quarterly » Read Now
by Jan A. Nelson. 13 pgs.

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...Abbreviated Style and Les Lais de Marie de France Jan A. Nelson Instruction in grammar and...historiae such as we find in the Lais of Marie de France. Although Marie de...
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Fictions of Identity in Medieval France (Chap. 1 "The Specular Encounter in Fictions of Reciprocity: The Lais of Marie de France") » Read Now
by Donald Maddox. 295 pgs.

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In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages, Donald Maddox considers the construction of identity in a wide range of fictions. He focuses on crucial encounters, widespread in medieval literature, in which characters are informed about...
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In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages, Donald Maddox considers the construction of identity in a wide range of fictions. He focuses on crucial encounters, widespread in medieval literature, in which characters are informed about fundamental aspects of their own circumstances and selfhood. The study offers many new perspectives on the poetic and cultural implications of identity as an imaginary construct during the long formative period of French literature.
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Shaping Romance: Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions (includes "Textual Identity and the Name of a Collection: Marie de France's Lais") » Read Now
by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner. 305 pgs.

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...as "Strategies of Naming in Marie de Frances Lais: At the Crossroads of Genre...It may seem odd to associate Marie de Frances Lais with those same cycles...as we see in the...
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Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (includes "Marie de France and the Body Poetic") » Read Now
by Jane Chance. 342 pgs.

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...5. Rupert T. Pickens, Marie de France and the Body Poetic 135...Trobairitz lyrics in Provencal . Marie de France 12th c.; Anglo-Norman French...writing women are Heloise...
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Deadly Letters: "Deus Amanz," Marie's "Prologue" to the 'Lais' and the Dangerous Nature of the Gloss, in The Romanic Review » Read Now
by Andrew Cowell. 20 pgs.

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...Prologue" (henceforth Pro) to Marie de Frances Lais opens with the traditional...sur les oeuvres attribuees a Marie de France (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1968...Natures and...
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The Challenge of the Medieval Text: Studies in Genre and Interpretation (includes "The Arthuricity of Marie de France") » Read Now
by W. T. H. Jackson, Joan M. Ferrante, Robert W. Hanning. 248 pgs.

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Women's Vision in Western Literature: The Empathic Community (Chap. Two "The Situation Ethics of Marie de France") » Read Now
by Laurence M. Porter. 258 pgs.

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Medieval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances (includes information on Marie de France in "Lay Le Freine") » Read Now
by Laura A. Hibbard Loomis. 342 pgs.

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...later times with Marie de Brabant, second...Philippe III of France 1276 15...Cologne, a chanson de geste" of which...a princess of France, is ugly and deformed...verse by...
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The Lyric Malmarie: Marie's Subtext in Guigemar, in Romance Quarterly » Read Now
by Joan Brumlik. 14 pgs.

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...Guigemar Joan Brumlik Marie de France Guigemar is the story of a knight...references are to Les Lais de Marie de France , ed. Jean Rychner (Paris...2. "The Lais of Marie...
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Transferal, Transformation, and the Act of Reading in Marie De France's Bisclavret, in Romance Quarterly » Read Now
by Sunhee Kim Gertz. 12 pgs.

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...Transformation, and the Act of Reading in Marie de Frances Bisclavret SunHee Kim Gertz Marie de France twelfth-century lai Bisclavret...Jean Rychner, ed. Les Lais de Marie...
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An Introduction to Medieval Romance (includes "Breton Lays and the Lays of Marie de France") » Read Now
by A. B. Taylor. 268 pgs.

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Women's Writing in Middle English (includes a chapter on Marie de France) » Read Now
by Alexandra Barratt. 328 pgs.

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