Deborah Sinnreich-Levi

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Deborah Sinnreich-Levi is an American scholar of medieval literature who specializes in the work of the French 14th-c poet Eustache Deschamps and was called a "pioneer in the revival of interest in Deschamps", a poet who had long been neglected. [1] Sinnreich-Levi received her B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York and her graduate degrees (Ph.D., M.A., M.Ph.) from Graduate Center, CUNY; her doctorate was granted in 1987. She attended the Summer Latin Workshop at University of California, Berkeley, in 1980. She taught at Stevens Institute of Technology. [2]

She edited and translated Deschamps' L’Art de dictier et de fere chancons, balades, virelais et rondeaulx, his treatise on verse. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Laidlaw, James (1997). "Review of L'art de Dictier by Eustache Deschamps and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi". Speculum. 72 (4): 1162–63. doi:10.2307/2865970. JSTOR   2865970.
  2. "Deborah Sinnreich-Levi" . Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  3. Astell, Ann W. (2003). "Review of The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony: Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne by John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi". The Yearbook of English Studies. 33: 329–330. doi:10.2307/3509034. JSTOR   3509034.