Le Livre de la Duchesse et autres textes

Jonathan Fruoco

This edition offers, for the first time in French, a bilingual edition of Chaucer's complete works, accompanied by new introductions written by the most prominent scholars in the field of medieval studies.

Polyphony and the Modern

Jonathan Fruoco

Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time?  This book sees polyphony as a bridge providing a terminology and a stylistic practice by which the period barrier between Medieval and Early Modern can be breached.

Les faits et gestes de Robin des Bois

Jonathan Fruoco

This book proposes, for the first time in French, a bilingual edition of the original Robin Hood poems and plays that defined this iconic character.

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 Lone Medievalist Prize for Scholarship 2018

(Re)writing and Remembering

Jonathan Fruoco, et al.

Recounting past events is intrinsic to the storytelling function, as most fiction assumes the past tense as the natural means of narrating a story. 

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Ranging from poetry to novels, this collection of essays discusses the extent to which fictional acts of remembering are also acts of rewriting the past.

Chaucer's Polyphony

Jonathan Fruoco

If Geoffrey Chaucer cannot be thought of as the father of English poetry, he is, however, the father of English prose and one of the main artisans of what Mikhail Bakhtin called the polyphonic novel.

L'imaginaire sériel
Les mécanismes sériels à l'oeuvre dans le processus créatif

Jonathan Fruoco

In this collection of essays, academics from various disciplines question the notion of seriality. What fascinates us in fragmented narratives? Why are we instantly hooked?

This book attempts to define a serial imaginary that would explain the impact of seriality on the human mind.

Geoffrey Chaucer : Polyphonie et modernité

Jonathan Fruoco

This book tries to demonstrate that Chaucer's contribution to English literature might be his contribution to the development of the polyphonic prose.

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Publication supported by the Institut Universitaire de France.

Translatio and the History of Ideas

Jonathan Fruoco, et al.

This book brings together contributions reflecting the advances in research on the Translatio and its role in the march of ideas. The objective of the investigations published in this volume is to measure the inflections induced by the Translatio, this passage from once culture to another.

Critical Insights
Geoffrey Chaucer

Jonathan Fruoco, et al.

Second only to Shakespeare (who coincidentally came after), Geoffrey Chaucer laid the foundation for English verse.

This volume focuses on Chaucer's English background and the effects this had on his monumental verse and explore the distinct transnational quality of his characterizations and narratives.

Pérégrinations & métamorphoses

Jonathan Fruoco, et al.

This volume attempts to explore the literary and linguistic exchanges between Great-Britain and France since the Middle Ages.

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The essays published here show the richness and complexity of the Anglo-French mariage. 

Persona and Paradox
Issues of Identity for C.S. Lewis, his Friends, and Associates

Jonathan Fruoco, et al.

Although certain aspects of C.S. Lewis's work have been studied in detail, others have been neglected.​

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This collection of esays looks at Lewis's life and work, and those of his friends and associates, from many different angles, but all connected through a common theme of identity.