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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... motifs and themes from Arthurian romance and then amplifying them as in the first romans d'anti- quité . This is particularly evident in the Seven Sages of Rome and the Huon de Bordeaux cycles . 98 While the trial motif of the early ...
... motif fits topical argument . Similarly , her subunits are topical formulae for the dis- position of arguments . Inclusion , rearrangement , or substitution within the formulae provides for both topical originality and natural and ...
... Motif Repetition and Narrative Bifurcation in Beroul's Tristan . " In Voices of Conscience : Essays James D. Powell and Rosemary Hodgins . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . Pp . 131-42 . Kelly , Douglas 1978a : Medieval ...