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Books
Unveiling the Green Knight
Jonathan Fruoco
This volume explores the myriad facets of the Gawain legend through a comparative analysis of the poem and the film. Authors examine these works’ themes, motifs, and narrative techniques, while shedding light on their historical and cultural resonances.
Unveiling the Green Knight
Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2024
14€
Troïlus et Criseyde
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.
Troïlus et Criseyde
Classiques Garnier, 2023
49€
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.
Polyphony and the Modern
Routledge, 2021
£130
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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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Les Faits et Gestes de Robin des Bois
Poèmes, ballades et saynètes
UGA Editions, 2017
24,90€
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(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.
(Re)writing and Remembering
Memory as Artefact and Artifice
Cambridge Scholars, 2016
£41,99
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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.
Le Livre de la Duchesse et autres textes
Classiques Garnier, 2021
49€
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.
Chaucer's Polyphony. The Modern in Medieval Poetry
MIP, De Gruyter, 2020
86,95€
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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.
Imaginaire sériel
Les mécanismes à l'oeuvre danz l'acte créatif
UGA Editions, 2017
21€
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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.
Geoffrey Chaucer : polyphonie et modernité
Michel Houdiard, 2015
25€â€‹
Book chapters
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.
Translation and History of Ideas
Ideas, Languages, Politics
Peter Lang, 2019
35€
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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.
Critical Insights: Geoffrey Chaucer
Salem Press, 2017
94,99$
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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.
Pérégrinations & métamorphoses : échanges littéraires et linguistiques entre la Grande-Bretagne et la France depuis le Moyen âge
Presses Universitaires de l'ICES, 2018
15€
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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.