Shifts and transpositions in medieval narrative : a festschrift for Dr Elspeth Kennedy / edited by Karen Pratt ; assisted by Penny Eley [and others]

Pratt, Karen

1994, First Edition. Cambridge ; Rochester, NY, USA : D.S. Brewer. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #404812
ISBN: 0859914216

Physical description: xxi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Foreword / Douglas Kelly -- Bibliography of Writings / Elspeth Kennedy -- Introduction / Karen Pratt -- Vers, prose et fiction narrative (1150-1240) / Emmanuele Baumgartner -- Renoart in Avalon: Generic Shift in the Bataille Loquifer / Sara Sturm-Maddox and Donald Maddox -- Motherhood. The Case of the Epic Family Romance / Sarah Kay -- From Lyric to Play: Thematic Structure and Social Structure in Le Jeu de Robin et Marion / Roger Pensom -- Tristan and his Doubles as Singers of Lais: Love and Music in the Prose Roman de Tristan / Maureen Boulton -- Transformations of a Theme: Marriage and Sanctity in the Old French St Alexis Poems / Janice M. Pinder. Subjects: Kennedy, Elspeth; Literature, Medieval History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500; Literature, Medieval; Narration (Rhetoric); Arthurian romances; Literature, Medieval History and criticism; Medieval Literature.

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