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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... things , is an exercise of reason in the discernment of stages and divisions within a clearly delimited field of inquiry . " 98 The interpreta- tion of narrative is either open or by insinuation.99 That is , the writer may state his or ...
... things , including the establishment of the table , and many other things that you will hear in his book ] . Blaise's livre is the estoire the romancer has written , and it is also the text we read or listen to as transcribed from the ...
... things which I am not certain of ] . One relates the certain . 273 Of course , such passages may be merely a narrative ploy to avoid unnecessary amplification ; or they may sim- ply cause suspense . “ Ge ne sai pas quant qu'il dist la ...