Chrétien continued : a study of the Conte du Graal and its verse continuations /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | "Chrétien continued: a study of the Conte du Graal and its verse continuations offers the first book-length examination of all four verse continuations that follow Chrétien's unfinished Grail story, a powerful site of rewriting from the late twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. By focusing on the dialogue between Chrétien and the verse continuators, this study demonstrates how the patterns and puzzles inscribed in the first author's romance continue to guide his successors, whose additions and reinventions throw new light back on the problems medieval readers and writers found in the mother text: questions about society and the individual; love, gender relations, and family ties; chivalry, violence, and religion; issues of collective authorship and doubled heroes, interpretation, rewriting, and canon formation. However far the continuations appear to wander from the master text, the manuscript tradition supports an implicit claim of oneness extending across the multiplicity of discordant voices combined in a dozen different manuscript compilations, the varying ensembles in which most medieval readers encountered Chrétien's Conte"--Abstract. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199557219 0199557217 9780191565267 0191565261 9780191720932 0191720933 |