Sources and analogues of the Nouvelles récréations et joyeux devis of Bonaventure des Périers.
Series: University of North Carolina studies in comparative literature,; v. 20
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1957
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng; fre
Subjects: Des Périers, Bonaventure, 1500?-1544?
Description: Volume II. As with the first volume, this consists of a preface detailing the scope of work and attendant methodologies, an introduction with a brief but comprehensive biobibliographical account of Des Périers, and the bulk of the text: detailed discussion of the sources and analogues of the last forty-five nouvelles. Since the first volume was published, more information on the first forty-five tales has been discovered. The new information is delineated in Appendix A, while Appendix B addresses nouvelle XIX seule.
Notes: Bibliography: v. 2, p. 225-247.
Vol. 2, without series note, has imprint: Athens, University of Georgia.