Translations in progress

Denn das Schöne ist nichts als des Schrecklichen Anfang

 

 

 

Twentieth-Century German Literature

 

Paul Simpson's Introduction to the work of Alfred Lichtenstein

The Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein (translated by Sheldon Gilman and Robert Levine)


The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein (translated by Sheldon Gilman, Robert Levine, and Harry Radford)

Tribute to Harry Radford

 

 

"Mohamlet in Manhattan," by Albert Ehrenstein


Three Magic Tales by Albert Ehrenstein

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My Heart by Else Lasker-Schueler (translated by Sheldon Gilman and Robert Levine)

 

Five poems by Else Lasker-Schueler, translated by Janine Marie Schwab

 

The Miraculous Rabbi of Barcelona by Else Lasker-Schueler

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"The Abduction," by Mynona (Salomo Friedländer), translated by Sheldon Gilman and Robert Levine

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The opening section of Jarmila, by Ernst Weiss

translated by Sheldon Gilman and Robert Levine

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Modern French Literature

 

"THE CHILDREN OF LAKE TANA" a short story by Pius NGANDU Nkashama, translated by Jimi Yuma and Robert Levine

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A fragment of A day of blistering sun over the mountains of Ethiopia, a novel by Pius NGANDU Nkashama, translated by Jimi Yuma and Robert Levine

 


The Fallen Horse ( Le cheval Evanoui), by Françoise Sagan, translated by Michelle Andreoli, Olga Livshin and Toni Matsuo


Guy de Maupassant, "A Duel," translated by Matthew Yost

 

 

 

Modern Spanish Literature

 

 

 

 

chapter VI of Cumanda, by Juan Leon Mera

 

Guillermo Valencia, Los Camellos

 

Classical Greek Literature

Homer, Iliad 22.395-474, translated by Laurie Glenn

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Chinese Poetry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

韓愈:醉贈張秘書


I. Han Yu and his Poem “Drunk, to Han Shu of the Imperial Library”

II. Essay and translation by William Wallis

 

Medieval and Renaissance Verse and Prose

 

Tales of the Minstrel of Rheims

battle of bouvines

 


 

Guibert of Nogent's Deeds of God Through the Franks:

Introduction
Books One and Two
Books Three and Four
Books Five and Six
Book Seven

 

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A Thirteenth-Century Life of Charlemagne (vol. 3 of Les Grandes Chroniques)

Book One
Books Two and Three

Books Four and Five

illustrations: (left) Charlemagne slaying saracens; (right) Flight of the Saracens. Roland fights Ferragut.

 

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Les Grandes Chroniques (The first five books of Les Grandes Chroniques)

Introduction and Book One
Books Two and Three
Books Four and Five

(illustrations: death of galswinth and death of brunhild)

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Moral and Satirical poems by Walter of Chatillon
Archpoet, Poem II
Walter of Wimborne's De Palpone

The story of Orpheus from the 14th-century ovide moralisé

ausoniuscento
The "Pious Traitor" from The 12th -century Song of Antioch
Two trials from the Criminal Register of the Châtelet
Part of Herbert of Boseham's description of Becket's death 

Poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein

 

Adam of Saint-Victor, Sequence II
Adam of Saint-Victor, Sequence IV
Adam of Saint-Victor, Sequence VII
Adam of Saint-Victor, Sequence VIII
Adam of Saint-Victor, Sequence XXXVII
Adam of Saint-Victor, Sequence XLII

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nombril

 

Gregorius, by Hartmann von Aue

 

Jean Bodel's Saint Nicholas Play, translated by Eugene Green
 

Life of Saint Margaret, chapters I and II, translated by Ron Lacey

Chapters I-XXXVII of Le Page Disgracie. The Disgraced Page (1643), by Tristan L’Hermite, translated by Robert Levine

 

 

by Yasuko Okada

 

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articles

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"Ingeld and Christ: a Medieval Problem," Viator II (1971), pp. 105-128.

sutton ho purse-lid

death of roland

 

 

 

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"Who composed Havelok for whom?" Yearbook for English Studies,XXII (1992), pp. 95-104.

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"Myth and Anti-Myth in Cuvelier's La Vie Vaillante de Bertrand Du Guesclin," Viator XVI (1985), pp. 259-275.

 

 

charles v makes bertrand connetable

 

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"Baptizing Pirates: Fabula and Tri-functionality in Norman Apology," Mediaevistik 4 (1991), pp. 157-178.

baptising rollo

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"The Pious Traitor: the Man who Betrayed Antioch," Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch XXXIII (1998), pp. 59-80.

 

"Prudentius's Romanus: the rhetorician as hero, martyr and saint," Rhetorica IX (1991), pp. 5-38.

sathist

a review of John W. Baldwin, The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France around 1200, Chicago, 1994, in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 5.2. (1998), pp. 301-302.

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einhard

 

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archpoet

"Exploiting Ovid: Medieval Allegorizations of the Metamorphoses," Medioevo Romanzo XIV (1989), pp. 197-213

"Squaring the Circle: the Marriage of Mary and Aristotle in Dante's Paradiso XXXIII," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen LXXXVI (1985), pp. 280-284.

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"Repression in Cligès," Sub/Stance XV (1976), pp. 209-221.

"How to read Walter Map," Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch XXIII (1988), pp. 91-105.

"Restraining Ambiguities in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyda," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen LXXXVII (1986), pp. 558-564

alcuin

review of kieling on alcuin

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"The Pearl-Child: Topos and Archetype in the Pearl," Medievalia et Humanistica VIII (1977), pp. 243-251.

"Pandarus as Davus," Neuphilogische Mitteilungen XCII (1991), pp. 463-468.

"Liudprand of Cremona: History and Debasement in the Tenth Century," Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch XXVI(1991), pp. 70-84.

Deadly Diatribe in the Récits d'un ménestrel de Reims," Res Publica Litterarum XIV (1991), pp. 115-126.

"Aspects of Grotesque Realism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Chaucer Review XVII (1982), pp. 65-75.

"Why praise Jews; History and Satire in the Middle Ages," Journal of Medieval History XII (1986), pp. 291-296

Wolfram von Eschenbach: Homo Ludens," Viator XIII (1982), pp. 177-201.

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"Gower as Gerontion; Oneiric Autobiography in the Confessio Amantis," Medieaevistik 5 (1992), pp. 81-96.

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Franklin

"Satiric Vulgarity in Guibert de Nogent's Gesta Dei per Francos," Rhetorica 7 (1989), pp. 261-273.

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draft of Incarnational Matrix, or Divagations on an essay by Derrida

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katachresis

annominatio

pingpong

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SYLLABI

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medsyl07

syl32206f
syl522

chaucersyl06f

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Alliterativetexts.htm

thebes

galfredus

gautieresproncedaverlainemallarme

dover

william longsword

bakhtin

scissors or sword
against julian

"Charlemagne in the 1170's: Reading the Oxford Roland in the Context of the Becket Controversy" by James Cain

evitanda
Piers
transparence
Decameron X.v
Gower's Tale of Florent
leir
Gower's Constance
fairy queen II.x
fairy queen III.xii
second nun's tale
curtius
Chapter Four of Anglo Saxon Audiences, by Eugene Green, New York, 2001.

analecta amoris


priam
Loren J. Samons II, Mass, Elite, and Hoplite-Farmer in Greek History [Arion, third series, 5.3 (1998), 99-123]
edstraum
FQIV
measure
genesis
gorgias
pride
Working Notes for Howards End
novel
dryden
Mary MacCarthy on Chaucer's fabliaux
george starbuck's shakespeare
Opening of Ovid's Metamporphoses X
sonnets
final222
hv

sf

seeing

wacegiant layamonsgiant

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marco pantani

 

Membra sepulcra tegunt, spiritus astra tenet.

 

 

velo
cv
ty
historyseminar
johnson
dreves
wycliffe
medfem
eat
lamb
lamb2
guido
dreams
euripides
hazlitt

layamon's lear

lazarillo5

piers

Iambic alphabetic monorhyme pentameter

shakespeare corrected by dryden

brown

faustbook

amoenus

achilles

Charles Muscatine, Chaucer and the French Tradition, pp. 175-190

middleenglish

gesta regum

alanus on sex, grammar, logic, rhetoric

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http://buscon.rae.es/diccionario/drae.htm

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http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/virt_bib/manuscripts.htm

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Ic mæg wesan god swa he.

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SOUND FILES

pound
Balfe, "Marble Halls" (Rosy Morabito amd Howard Bloch)
forster
robert emmett
croppy boy
Scofield's Malvolio 12th night II.v
Yeats' Oedipus 1186-1407
prufrock
lacidarem
wake
Miller's Tale ll. 3233-3270
messer
lauzeta
rudel
yeats
august
llady
hontas
hairy

adam

tl

tl2

 

 

see also spokenlit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(click here to see the cards) DES CARTES POSTALES DE GILLES GRANDJOUAN

 

 

o que está suspenso entre el violín y el arco. R.D.

 

 

 

Yo no soy cantor letrao J.H.

 

 

Ne donnez jamais l'esperon
A cheval, qui vouluntiers trotte.       C.M.

 

Les sentiments de l'homme sont confus et mélangés; ils se composent d'une multitude d'impressions variées qui échappent à l'observation; et la parole, toujours trop grossière et trop générale, peut bien servir à les désigner, mais ne sert jamais à les definer –B.C.

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Paintings by Roger Kizik (click here)

 

 

 

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Où est Sally?

 

 

Paintings by Tino Villanueva (click here)

 

paintings by ann kirchner (click here)

 

Paintings and Drawings by Jonathan Gelb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alter machet widerzême
Manic dinc, daz vor was genême

 

 

 

Claretta Tonetti

http://people.bu.edu/vivo/paintings.html

 

 

 

 

 (click on the images above to enlarge)

 

James Kelly

 






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