 | Shaping Romance: Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions Subjects: French poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; Tristan (Legendary character) -- Romances -- History and criticism; Narrative poetry French -- History and criticism; Romances -- History and criticism; Fictions Theory of; Rhetoric Medieval; Closure (; 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. |
