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.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[1993]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""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: Chretien'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 Blois""""The 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 Titles""""Marie's Fusion of Voices""; ""Orality and Writing, Orality in Writing""; ""Closing and Opening the Collection""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography of Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""