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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1993]
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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