Up to the twelfth century, writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which were understood to convey the truth. The second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre--the romance--which was consciously conceived as fictional and therefore allowed to break free from traditional presuppositions. Green examines this period of crucial importance for the romance genre and for the genesis of medieval fiction.
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'Green's is a comparative, pan-European approach never neglectful of literary developments and textual examples ... but also ... Green is a true pleasure to read: his manner is unvaryingly straightforward and robust; the perfect mastery with which he develops an argument allows for no loose ends, neither from one paragraph to the next nor from chapter to chapter.' Dalhousie French Studies
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Up to the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which were held to convey the truth. The second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre, the romance, which was consciously conceived as fictional and therefore allowed largely to break free from traditional presuppositions. Dennis Green explores how and why this happened, and examines this period of crucial importance for the birth of the romance and the genesis of medieval fiction in the vernacular.
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The aim of this chapter is to propose a working definition of fiction applicable to the romances written between about 1150 and 1220, making no claim to wider validity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
double cycle structure, eyewitness authentication, fictive orality, ordo artificialis, antique romances, twofold reception, recital situation, ordo naturalis, res factae, fictive stance, fictional contract, double formula, folktale elements, folktale material, interim stay, vernacular fiction, medieval fiction, fictional romance, public recital, court literature, clerical authors, lay literacy, fictional status, reading reception, fictional writing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, William of Malmesbury, Round Table, Geoffrey's Historia, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wolfram's Parzival, Hartmann's Erec, Roman de Troie, Isidore of Seville, Gottfried's Tristan, Konrad von Hirsau, Trojan War, Old Testament, Roman de Brut, Roman de Rou, William of Newburgh, Der Pleier, Prester John, Virgil's Aeneid, Henry of Huntingdon, Jean Bodel, John of Salisbury, Anselm of Laon, Denis Piramus, Giraldus Cambrensis New!
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The aim of this chapter is to propose a working definition of fiction applicable to the romances written between about 1150 and 1220, making no claim to wider validity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
double cycle structure, eyewitness authentication, fictive orality, ordo artificialis, antique romances, twofold reception, recital situation, ordo naturalis, res factae, fictive stance, fictional contract, double formula, folktale elements, folktale material, interim stay, vernacular fiction, medieval fiction, fictional romance, public recital, court literature, clerical authors, lay literacy, fictional status, reading reception, fictional writing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, William of Malmesbury, Round Table, Geoffrey's Historia, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wolfram's Parzival, Hartmann's Erec, Roman de Troie, Isidore of Seville, Gottfried's Tristan, Konrad von Hirsau, Trojan War, Old Testament, Roman de Brut, Roman de Rou, William of Newburgh, Der Pleier, Prester John, Virgil's Aeneid, Henry of Huntingdon, Jean Bodel, John of Salisbury, Anselm of Laon, Denis Piramus, Giraldus Cambrensis New!
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- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy on page 88, and page 142
- War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy on page 88, and page 142
- France and the British Isles in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Essays by Members of Girton College, Cambridge, in Memory of Ruth Morgan by Gillian Jondorf in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- War and peace : a novel by Count Leo Tolstoy (Modern Library Giants, 1.1) by Leo Tolstoy on page 88, and page 142
- Fictions of Identity in Medieval France (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Donald Maddox in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by J. A. Burrow in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Medieval Warfare by Helen J. Nicholson in Back Matter
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