TY - BOOK AU - Bruckner,Matilda Tomaryn TI - Shaping Romance: Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions T2 - The Middle Ages Series SN - 9780812231694 AV - PQ178 U1 - 841/.030901 20 PY - 2015///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - Arthurian romances KW - History and criticism KW - French poetry KW - To 1500 KW - Narrative poetry, French KW - Tristan (Legendary character) KW - Romances KW - Cultural Studies KW - Literature KW - Medieval and Renaissance Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512801057 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512801057 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781512801057.jpg ER -