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Shaping Romance : Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812231694
  • 9781512801057
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 841/.030901 20
LOC classification:
  • PQ178
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Truth in Disguise: The Voice of Renarration in the Folie Tristan d^Oxford -- 2. Putting Off the Ending: Thomas and the Legend of Tristan and Iseut -- 3. A Case for mise en abyme: Chretien's Chevalier de la Charrete -- 4. The Interplay of Gender and Genres in Partonopeu de Blois -- 5. Textual Identity and the Name of a Collection: Marie de France's Lais -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Truth in Disguise: The Voice of Renarration in the Folie Tristan d^Oxford -- 2. Putting Off the Ending: Thomas and the Legend of Tristan and Iseut -- 3. A Case for mise en abyme: Chretien's Chevalier de la Charrete -- 4. The Interplay of Gender and Genres in Partonopeu de Blois -- 5. Textual Identity and the Name of a Collection: Marie de France's Lais -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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