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Mario A. Pei.
French Precursors of the Chanson de Roland.

Published New York: AMS Press, 1966 (reprints the 1948 Columbia U.P. edn.)
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; no dustjacket.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 143x222x11mm.
Page count: xiv,105pp.
Main language: English; quotations given without translation.
Overall condition good: boards and spine have a bit of wear on the edges and corners; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £9.00
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Weight without packaging: 294g.

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Compares various aspects of the Roland with several earlier works, religious literature in particular.Contents: Versification; Syntactical constructions & vocabulary; Stylistic & literary devices; Themes & incidents — religious-supernatural — religious — religious-feudal — feudal — human — isolated themes.

Notes: at foot of page in the foreword, elsewhere none
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 4pp
Index: no 


See also | Chanson de Roland |

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