Little is known about Alain Chartier's early life save that he was born in Bayeux into a bourgeois family prominent in the town's affairs, and that he studied at the University of Paris; the date of h...
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In the following essay, Hoffman offers a critical overview of Chartier's prose works, providing an analysis of his reputation among critics, comparisons to other writers, and an assessment of h...
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In the essay that follows, White reads the Débat patriotique as a depiction of a generational conflict between a patriotic old knight and a cynical young knight regarding the Hundred Years�...
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In the essay that follows, Laidlaw offers a critical overview of Chartier's poems in a biographical context.
Storys to rede ar delitabill, Suppos that thai be nocht bot fabill.
John Barb...
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In the following essay, Kibler contends that, rather than being “a piece of escapist literature written only to divert the court,” as it is often characterized, La Belle Dame sans mercy ...
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In the following essay, Giannasi refutes biographical interpretations of La Belle Dame sans mercy that see Chartier as the poem's narrator. The narrator, he argues, functions as both the teller...
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In the following essay, Brown examines Chartier's allegorical depiction of Joan of Arc in the Latin prose letter De Puella epistola, and explores how this work draws upon the allegorical elemen...
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In the excerpt that follows, Hult asserts that in Belle Dame sans mercy Chartier uses the techniques of allegory to construct a critique of the form itself and its interpretation.
Tout pour moi dev...
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Alain Chartier
Critical Essay by Edward J. Hoffman
