RomanceHistoricalLiterary
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"In Shaping Romance, Matilda Bruckner 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. Bruckner contends that, in the explosion of literary works that characterize the twelfth-century Renaissance, romance plays a particularly exuberant role, with its gift for experimentation in form and ideas and its taste for a wide array of materials combined through intergeneric mixing."--BOOK JACKET. "Bruckner is concerned not so much with the…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2015University of Pennsylvania Press · 312 pages · 9781512801057
- Other · English · 1993University of Pennsylvania Press · 292 pages · 9780812231694
Arthurian romancesClosure (Rhetoric)French Narrative poetryFrench poetryHistory and criticismKnights and knighthood in literatureMedieval RhetoricRomances