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Zayde : a Spanish romance /

Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. Zayde unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and Musl...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693
Autres auteurs: Paige, Nicholas D.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Francés
Publié: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Collection:Other voice in early modern Europe.
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Résumé:Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. Zayde unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula; Madame de Lafayette (1634-93) takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances?from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again?with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the book?s noble l.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xxix, 210 pages) : illustrations, map.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226468440
0226468445
9780226468518
0226468518
9780226468525
0226468526