The Arthurian Romances of Chretien de Troyes : Once and Future Fictions
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
ISBN-10
0521394503
ISBN-13
9780521394505
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 26th, 1991
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
426 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Chretien de Troyes was one of the most important medieval writers of Arthurian narrative.
Chrétien de Troyes was one of the most important medieval writers of Arthurian narrative. A key figure in reshaping the ''once and future fictions'' of Arthurian story, he was instrumental in the late twelfth-century shift from written and oral legendary traditions to a highly sophisticated literary cultivation of the Old French verse romance. While examining individually each of Chretien''s five Arthurian romances, Donald Maddox looks at their coherence as a group, suggesting that their intertextual relations lend a harmony of meaning and design to the ensemble as a whole. Central to his argument is the focus on customs, which provide unity within as well as among the works while conveying an acute sense of the vulnerability and dissolution of feudal institutions in an age of social crisis and transition.
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