Romance: Generic Transformation from Chrétien de Troyes to Cervantes - Hardcover

Brownlee, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874513383 ISBN 13: 9780874513387

Publisher: University Press of New England, 1985

Synopsis

Thirteen scholars examine changing conceptions of the romance genre that flourished widely during the formative centuries of French, Italian, and Spanish literature. Combining an awareness of new critical approaches with close readings of individual texts, they bring historical perspective to bear on an issue of literary theory that has itself changed radically over time. Collectively they present a thematic, topical, and methodological diversity that yields a sense of the full meaning of romance in its many aspects. Growing out of the 1982 Dartmouth Colloquium on Medieval and Early Modern Romance Literatures, the book will interest a diverse audience of students and scholars, comparatists and literary historians, philologists and literary theorists. --- Contents: Preface; Introduction; What Bakhtin Left Unsaid: The Case of the Medieval Romance / Cesare Segre; Amorous Imitation: Bakhtin, Augustine, and Le Roman d'Eneas / Stephen G. Nichols; Romance and the Vanity of Chretien De Troyes / Douglas Kelly; La Chevalerie Celestiel: Spiritual Transformations of Secular Romance in La queste del Saint Graal / Nancy Freeman-Regalado; Jean De Meun and the Limits of Romance: Genius as Rewriter of Guillaume de Lorris / Kevin Brownlee; Renewal and Undermining of Old French Romance: Jehan de Saintre / Karl D. Uitti; Rabelais, Romances, Reading, Righting Names / Edward Morris; The Boat of Romance and Renaissance Epic / David Quint; The Romance of Chivalry in Spain: From Rodriguez de Montalvo to Cervantes / Harry Sieber; Cervantes as Reader of Ariosto / Marina Scordilis Brownlee; The Truth of the Matter: The Place of Romance in the Works of Cervantes / Ruth S. El Saffar; Where Have All the "Old Knights" Gone?: L'astrée / Louise K. Horowitz; Afterword: The Problems of Generic Transformation / Ralph Cohn

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0874513383
• ISBN 13: 9780874513387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 293
• Editor: Brownlee Marina Scordilis