Shaping Romance: Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions

Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1994

Shaping Romance

Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions

Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512801057

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Truth in Disguise: The Voice of Renarration in the Folie Tristan d^Oxford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
2. Putting Off the Ending: Thomas and the Legend of Tristan and Iseut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. A Case for mise en abyme: Chretien's Chevalier de la Charrete Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
4. The Interplay of Gender and Genres in Partonopeu de Blois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
5. Textual Identity and the Name of a Collection: Marie de France's Lais Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Bibliography of Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: Literature; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies

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Published: August 5, 2015
ISBN: 9781512801057