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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... episode which presents only a tenuous relationship to the main theme is an essential element in making the romance what it is . Remove an episode : the theme and thesis remain the same , but the work is not quite what it was before ...
... episode adds a weapon to the conclusion : Escalibor , the Espee as estranges renges , the bleeding lance . Here the ... episodes . J. H. M. Taylor has identified these proper- ties in late medieval romance as stratification ...
... episode . The reconciliation completes the interpretatio set forth in the discrete episodic parts of the quest in ... episodes and total plot drawn from a common conte d'avanture . To take another example , in Chrétien's Charrette , as ...