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The Arthurian Romances of Chretien de Troyes: Once and Future Fictions

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The Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes: Once and Future Fictions - Maddox, Donald
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Chr???tien 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 ...

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The Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes: Once and Future Fictions 2008, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521070577

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The Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes: Once and Future Fictions 1991, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521394505

Hardcover