The Art of Medieval French RomanceDouglas Kelly provides a comprehensive and historically valid analysis of the art of medieval French romance as the romancers themselves describe it. He focuses on well-known writers, such as Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, and also draws on a wide range of other sources—prose romances, non-Arthurian romances, thirteenth-century verse romances, and variant versions from the later Middle Ages. |
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... aventures that makes up the romance plot is based , as in Yvain , on a “ jeu de la vérité ” ( 6624 ) which solicits ... aventure merveilleuse in romance is not reducible to a simple definition . Indeed , both words in the expression are ...
... aventures peuvent d'ailleurs s'en- châsser dans un lai , 193 and a fortiori in a romance . The fundamental structure implicit in the ex- pression aventure merveilleuse ranges from simple and singular in most lays to expansive and ...
... aventures veut oïr e ver , Il ne puet touz jours demorer A ese ne a sojourn trere , Mès aler deit estrange tere Pur aprendre affetement Les maneres d'estrange gent . Ki plus loinz va plus verra E plus des aventures savra ; Jeo le sai ...