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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... Significance of Marvels 205 Truth of Narrative Matters 208 Topical Invention of Narrative Significance 210 Roles of Author , Narrator , Patron , and Audience in Topical Invention : Antancion 217 Language of Narrative Articulation ...
... significance of the wonders.18 As the epigraph for this section suggests , the romance audiences found the good , true , and beautiful in the marvels they heard related to them . Relation between Adventure and Marvel The aventure ...
... significance and disposition . The solutions vary from work to work ; they control adaptations by subsequent authors or scribes . The sovereign control of marvel , context , and narrative significance that marks the romances of Chrétien ...