دانلود کتاب William of Palerne: A Critical Analysis of its Structure, Theme, and Composition and a Modern English Prose Translation

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Many of the critics dealing with the middle English romance William of Palerne have been content to make general remarks about the style of the poem, or to evaluate it in comparison with Guillaume de Palerne, the French romance which William translates. These are important critical pursuits--some of the results of which the present study examines--but there remain serious gaps in our knowledge about the poem. What I hope to show, through an analysis of the structure, theme, and style of William, is that it is an accomplished, elegant narrative worthy of a place among the best works in the alliterative romance tradition. My second objective is to make available a clear, readable translation of William of Palerne into modern English. Many of the poems of the Alliterative Revival have had modern English translations, including Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleaness, St. Erkenwald, and the alliterative Morte Arthure. However, no adequate translation of William now exists. A translation of William (perhaps the earliest poem in the Revival) makes it available to the general reader, and may represent a contemporary understanding of what the poem is, in that sense constituting a commentary on the original.