Martorell's Tirant lo Blanch : A Program for Military and Social Reform in Fifteenth-Century Christendom /
This first critical analysis of the Catalan novel of chivalry, Tirant lo Blanch (1490), elucidates the sophisticated plan that lies behind its composition. By breaking down the 487-chapter story into two fundamental narrative threads--the military and erotic exploits of the hero--Aylward reveals the...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
[Distributed by University of North Carolina Press],
1985.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | This first critical analysis of the Catalan novel of chivalry, Tirant lo Blanch (1490), elucidates the sophisticated plan that lies behind its composition. By breaking down the 487-chapter story into two fundamental narrative threads--the military and erotic exploits of the hero--Aylward reveals the two-pronged narrative scheme that supports Martorell's fast-paced and amusing account of romance and political intrigue in fifteenth-century Constantinople. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (224 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781469642635 |


