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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... expression final . The inherent inadequacy of any art or ar- tifact makes each work implicitly susceptible of further elaboration , clarifi- cation , or correction . " This means that any work of adaptation - which , in medieval terms ...
... expression of the work's qualitas . 164 They give access to the formal and conceptual intentions of the author , like God's designs discovered in the world's ornatus . 165 Eugène Vinaver has taught us to recognize certain formal devices ...
... expression of the pensers or “ medita- tive probing " 301 of materia remota . The establishment of those limits provided “ cut - off points . ” These could in fact be so drastic as to leave the narrative incomplete when it no longer ...