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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... ment of parts , as well as for texture , that is , the character , quality , and pur- pose of the series and iunctura that loom large in both Horace and in the medieval arts of poetry and prose that derive from him.29 Multiple narrative ...
... ment may be covert as well , but nonetheless effective , as Kurt Lewent showed for Flamenca . In all this cross - movement , the apposite and coherent linking of narrative parts is a matter of iunctura.65 The prominence of the adventure ...
... ment of the " Nouvelle ” in the Late Middle Ages . Manchester : Manchester University Press . Fleischman , Suzanne 1983 : " On the Representation of History and Fiction in the Mid- dle Ages . " History and Theory 22 : 278-310 . Fletcher ...