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Professor Luke Sunderland - Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism between Ethics and Morality - 9781843842200 - V9781843842200
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Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism between Ethics and Morality

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Description for Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism between Ethics and Morality Hardback.
Detailed readings of four major medieval cycles. This is a study of four colossal medieval works - the Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange, the Vulgate Cycle, the Prose Tristan and the Roman de Renart - which are normally considered separately. By placing them side-by-side for analysis, Luke Sunderland is able to argue for an aesthetic of cyclicity that cuts across genre. He combines detailed readings of the narrative infrastructure of each cycle with attention to the shifts and transformations that come with successive acts of rewriting. Old French Narrative Cycles focuses in particular on revisions and controversies around ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843842200
SKU
V9781843842200
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Ref
99-50

Reviews for Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism between Ethics and Morality
Arguing for telling linkages between medieval text and modern theory, Sunderland's work affirms that in cycles, as in the investigation of cyclic texts by means of recent critical theory, what came before can be understood by means of what has developed later, which in turn may find an apt expression of itself in what came before.
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