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Shaping romance : interpretation, truth, and closure in twelfth-century French fictions / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn, Author.
- Series:
- Middle Ages series.
- The Middle Ages Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tristan (Legendary character)--Romances--History and criticism.
- Tristan.
- Closure (Rhetoric).
- Rhetoric, Medieval.
- Fictions, Theory of.
- Romances--History and criticism.
- Romances.
- Knights and knighthood in literature.
- Arthurian romances--History and criticism.
- Arthurian romances.
- Narrative poetry, French--History and criticism.
- Narrative poetry, French.
- French poetry--To 1500--History and criticism.
- French poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines a set of five twelfth-century romance texts—complete and fragmentary, canonical and now neglected, long and short—to map out the characteristics and boundaries of the genre in its formative period.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Truth in Disguise: The Voice of Renarration in the Folie Tristan d^Oxford
- 2. Putting Off the Ending: Thomas and the Legend of Tristan and Iseut
- 3. A Case for mise en abyme: Chretien's Chevalier de la Charrete
- 4. The Interplay of Gender and Genres in Partonopeu de Blois
- 5. Textual Identity and the Name of a Collection: Marie de France's Lais
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-284) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9781512801057
- 1512801054
- 9780585120386
- 0585120382
- OCLC:
- 44961033
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