The Influence Of Wace On The Arthurian Romances Of Crestian De Troies
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Author | : Thomas Hinton |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843842858 |
A new study of the continuations to Chrétien's Conte du Graal shows their crucial influence on the development of Arthurian literature. Chrétien de Troyes's late twelfth-century Conte du Graal has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. The challenge represented by its unfinished state was quickly taken up, and over the next fifty years the romance was supplemented by a number of continuations and prologues, which eventually came to dwarf Chrétien's text. In one of the first studies to treat the Conte du Graal and its continuations as a unified work, Thomas Hinton considers the whole corpus as a narrative cycle. Through a combination of close textual readings and manuscript analysis, the author argues that the unity of the narrative depends on a balanced tension between centripetal and centrifugal dynamics. He traces how the authors, scribes and illuminators of the cycle worked to produce coherence, even as they contended with potentially disruptive forces: multiple authorship, differences of intention, and changes in the relation between text, audience and book. Finally, he tackles the long-held orthodoxy that places the Perceval Continuations on the margins of literary history. Widening the scope of enquiry to consider the corpus's influence on thirteenth-century verse romances, this study re-situates the Conte du Graal cycle as a vital element in the evolution of Arthurian literature. Thomas Hinton isJunior Research Fellow in Modern Languages at Jesus College, Oxford.
Author | : Annette Brown Hopkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Arthurian romances |
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Author | : Norris J. Lacy |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843841616 |
A fine collection...an excellent introduction to Chrétien's world and work. Highly recommended. CHOICE Chrétien de Troyes is arguably the creator of Arthurian romance, and it is on his work that later writers have based their interpretations. This book offers both crucial information on, and a comprehensive coverage of, all aspectsof the work of Chrétien de Troyes - the literary and historical background, patronage, his influence on other writers, manuscripts and editions of his work and, at the heart of the volume, major essays on the themes, techniques and artistic achievements in each of his compositions; the contributions, all from leading experts in Chrétien and related studies, have been commissioned especially for this volume and are designed to remain accessible to studentswhile also addressing specialists in Arthurian studies and Chrétien de Troyes. They reflect the most current critical and scholarly views on one of the greatest of medieval authors. CONTRIBUTORS: JOHN W. BALDWIN, JUNEHALL MCCASH, LAURENCE HARF-LANCNER, NORRIS J. LACY, DOUGLAS KELLY, KEITH BUSBY, PETER F. DEMBOWSKI, ROBERTA L. KRUEGER, DONALD MADDOX, SARA STURM-MADDOX, JOAN TASKER GRIMBERT, MATILDA TOMARYN BRUCKNER, TONY HUNT, RUPERT T. PICKENS, ANNIE COMBES, MICHELLE SZKILNIK, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER
Author | : J. D. Janssens |
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Author | : Roger Sherman Loomis |
Publisher | : New York, Columbia U. P |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Arthurian romances |
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"...[R]eviews the background of Arthurian romance, classifying the typical phenomena accompanying the growth and spread of the legend . . . [T]hen examines, one by one, the names, motifs, situations and properties found in Chrétien's four Arthurian romances and shows where each element originated and how it became what it became" --Jacket flap.
Author | : Chrétien (de Troyes) |
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Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Arthurian romances |
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Author | : Chretien (de Troyes.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Arthurian romances |
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Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Arthurian romances |
ISBN | : 9781598755749 |
Chrétien de Troyes' Four Arthurian Romances continued and expanded on existing Arthurian legends, but began the Arthurian Romance genre, so popular in Medieval literature. His tales often diverge from Arthur himself, focussing instead on the characters of his court. Chretien introduced Sir Lancelot and also the Holy Grail to the Arthurian legends. He is considered the first major French novelist.
Author | : Chrétien (de Troyes) |
Publisher | : D. S. Brewer |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843841029 |
The original version of one of the greatest and most potent of medieval legends.
Author | : Donald Maddox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-07-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521070577 |
Chrétien de Troyes was one of the most important medieval writers of Arthurian narrative. A key figure in reshaping the 'once and future fictions' of Arthurian story, he was instrumental in the late twelfth-century shift from written and oral legendary traditions to a highly sophisticated literary cultivation of the Old French verse romance. While examining individually each of Chretien's five Arthurian romances, Donald Maddox looks at their coherence as a group, suggesting that their intertextual relations lend a harmony of meaning and design to the ensemble as a whole. Central to his argument is the focus on customs, which provide unity within as well as among the works while conveying an acute sense of the vulnerability and dissolution of feudal institutions in an age of social crisis and transition.