Politics in Translation: Language, War, and Lyric Form in Francophone Europe, 1337-1400.

Author / Editor
Strakhov, Yelizaveta. [Strakhov, Elizaveta].

Title
Politics in Translation: Language, War, and Lyric Form in Francophone Europe, 1337-1400.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, 2014. Dissertation Abstracts International A76.01(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Physical Description
ix, 339 pp.

Description
Studies aesthetic and political relations between France and Francophone England during the Hundred Years' War, with particular attention to uses and politics of the "formes fixes" of lyric poetry among French writers, Chaucer, and Gower. Examines the contents of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, MS Codex 902 (formerly French 15), and a wide range of French and English poems, including the poems of "Ch," Deschamps' praise of Chaucer, Gower's Traitie, and Chaucer's LGWP.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Legend of Good Women
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion