Shaping Romance: Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions
Examines a set of five twelfth-century romance texts—complete and fragmentary, canonical and now neglected, long and short—to map out the characteristics and boundaries of the genre in its formative period.
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Examines a set of five twelfth-century romance texts—complete and fragmentary, canonical and now neglected, long and short—to map out the characteristics and boundaries of the genre in its formative period.BooknewsIt's not the knights and ladies, the fantastic adventures, or the erotic tests that interest Bruckner (French, Boston College) so much as the means of attaining narrative complexity, particularly in the shifting of authorial stances and the meanings of signs. She examines five 12th-century poems, complete and fragmentary, famous and obscure, long and short. Does not assume a knowledge of French. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Truth in Disguise: The Voice of Renarration in the Folie Tristan d'Oxford12The Mediation of Signs13Iseut's Process of Interpretation17Tristan's Process of Interpretation and Recognition19The Sound of Voice in a Written Text25The Voice of the Oxford Poet in Intertextual Dialogue30The Corporeality of Truth342Putting Off the Ending: Thomas and the Legend of Tristan and Iseut37Doubling, the Key to Experience, Knowledge, and Identity38Two Final Visions of Death41The Narrator's Double View45The Epilogue50Thomas and the Tristan Legend533A Case for mise en abyme: Chretien's Chevalier de la Charrete60The Tournament at Noauz: mise en abyme61Intratextual Recalls65The Process of Recognition: The Herald70The Process of Recognition: The Queen73Delay and Characterization of the Lovers78Authors, Story, Public, Patroness84Yvain and the Charrete: Patterns of Multiplying Stories90Tristan, Lancelot, and the Measure of an Arthurian Ideal94The Fictionality of Romance1044The Interplay of Gender and Genres in Partonopeu de Blois109The Narrator's Double Stance110History and Romance113Beauty and Birth117Crisscrossing of Gender and Genres120The Interplay of Male and Female Power, Male and Female Beauty126Invisibility, Power, and Knowledge133Deception, Judgment, and the Role of Gender138The Mobility of Categories144The Poetics of Continuation1515Textual Identity and the Name of a Collection: Marie de France's Lais157Lai and Romance157Selection and Substitution: Guigemar163Recognition and Eliduc170Marie's Textual Identity: Names and Titles177Marie's Fusion of Voices183Orality and Writing, Orality in Writing189Closing and Opening the Collection199Conclusion207Notes227Bibliography of Works Cited267Index285
\ BooknewsIt's not the knights and ladies, the fantastic adventures, or the erotic tests that interest Bruckner (French, Boston College) so much as the means of attaining narrative complexity, particularly in the shifting of authorial stances and the meanings of signs. She examines five 12th-century poems, complete and fragmentary, famous and obscure, long and short. Does not assume a knowledge of French. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
