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The beginnings of medieval romance : fact and fiction, 1150-1220 / D.H. Green.
LIBRA PN671 .G74 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, D. H. (Dennis Howard), 1922-2008.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 47.
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 47
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romances--History and criticism.
- Romances.
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 Defining twelfth-century fictionality 1
- 2 Vernacular fiction in the twelfth century 18
- Predecessors 18
- Finding a place for fiction 26
- 3 Fictive orality 35
- Excursus: Orality and performance in early French romance 47
- 4 Fiction and Wolfram's Parzival 55
- Intertextuality 55
- History 84
- 5 Fiction and structure 93
- Ordo narrationis 96
- Typology 103
- Folktale pattern 113
- Double cycle 123
- 6 Fiction and history 134
- Types of narrative 134
- Matiere de Rome 153
- Matiere de Bretagne 168
- Genesis of medieval fictionality 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-285) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0521813999
- OCLC:
- 48469134
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