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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... effect , the work is " colored , " it acquires its topical sheen or man- ner , from the types it represents . 127 This conception of style emerged in late antiquity from Horatian and Ciceronian sources and was widespread in the twelfth ...
... effect of mar- vels on the observer , an effect which is not that pursuant to mere simultaneity . Whether Jung's explanation for such experiences is correct is not at issue here . His words are useful because they describe marvelous ...
... effect any less wonderful ( Lais Lan 575-92 ) . Indeed , she and Liénor in Guillaume de Dole are sisters : " Ne sai se c'est ou fee ou fame . " The same ambiguous , half - fay half - human quality of the heroines in Florimont and ...