Shaping romance : interpretation, truth, and closure in twelfth-century French fictions /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[1993]
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Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Truth in Disguise: The Voice of Renarration in the Folie Tristan d'Oxford
- The Mediation of Signs
- Iseut's Process of Interpretation
- Tristan's Process of Interpretation and Recognition
- The Sound of Voice in a Written Text
- The Voice of the Oxford Poet in Intertextual Dialogue
- The Corporeality of Truth
- 2. Putting Off the Ending: Thomas and the Legend of Tristan and Iseut
- Doubling, the Key to Experience, Knowledge, and Identity
- Two Final Visions of Death
- ""The Narrator's Double View""""The Epilogue""; ""Thomas and the Tristan Legend""; ""3. A Case for mise en abyme: Chrétien's Chevalier de la Charrete""; ""The Tournament at Noauz: mise en abyme""; ""Intratextual Recalls""; ""The Process of Recognition: The Herald""; ""The Process of Recognition: The Queen""; ""Delay and Characterization of the Lovers""; ""Authors, Story, Public, Patroness""; ""Yvain and the Charrete: Patterns of Multiplying Stories""; ""Tristan, Lancelot, and the Measure of an Arthurian Ideal""; ""The Fictionality of Romance""
- 4. The Interplay of Gender and Genres in Partonopeu de BloisThe Narrator's Double Stance
- History and Romance
- Beauty and Birth
- Crisscrossing of Gender and Genres
- The Interplay of Male and Female Power, Male and Female Beauty
- Invisibility, Power, and Knowledge
- Deception, Judgment, and the Role of Gender
- The Mobility of Categories
- The Poetics of Continuation
- 5. Textual Identity and the Name of a Collection: Marie de France's Lais
- Lai and Romance
- Selection and Substitution: Guigemar
- Recognition and Eliduc
- Marie's Textual Identity: Names and TitlesMarie's Fusion of Voices
- Orality and Writing, Orality in Writing
- Closing and Opening the Collection
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index
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