The Conte Du Graal Cycle

Author : Thomas Hinton
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842859

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The Conte Du Graal Cycle by Thomas Hinton Pdf

A new study of the continuations to Chrétien's Conte du Graal shows their crucial influence on the development of Arthurian literature. Chrétien de Troyes's late twelfth-century Conte du Graal has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. The challenge represented by its unfinished state was quickly taken up, and over the next fifty years the romance was supplemented by a number of continuations and prologues, which eventually came to dwarf Chrétien's text. In one of the first studies to treat the Conte du Graal and its continuations as a unified work, Thomas Hinton considers the whole corpus as a narrative cycle. Through a combination of close textual readings and manuscript analysis, the author argues that the unity of the narrative depends on a balanced tension between centripetal and centrifugal dynamics. He traces how the authors, scribes and illuminators of the cycle worked to produce coherence, even as they contended with potentially disruptive forces: multiple authorship, differences of intention, and changes in the relation between text, audience and book. Finally, he tackles the long-held orthodoxy that places the Perceval Continuations on the margins of literary history. Widening the scope of enquiry to consider the corpus's influence on thirteenth-century verse romances, this study re-situates the Conte du Graal cycle as a vital element in the evolution of Arthurian literature. Thomas Hinton isJunior Research Fellow in Modern Languages at Jesus College, Oxford.

Author : William W. Kibler
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292786400

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The Lancelot-Grail Cycle by William W. Kibler Pdf

Composed in Old French between about 1220 and 1240, the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is a group of five prose romances centered on the love affair between Lancelot and Guenevere. It consists of an immense central core, the Lancelot Proper, introduced by The History of the Holy Grail and The Story of Merlin and concluded by The Quest for the Holy Grail and The Death of Arthur. This volume brings together thirteen essays by noted scholars from the first symposium ever devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. Exploring the cycle's evolution across the literatures of medieval France, Italy, Spain, Catalonia, and England, the authors take a variety of approaches that highlight a broad range of cultural, social, historical, and political concerns and offer a comparative and interdisciplinary vision of this great romance.

Author : Karen Sullivan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226540436

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The Danger of Romance by Karen Sullivan Pdf

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular romance and fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones, reference them in conversations, and create online communities to expound, passionately and intelligently, upon their characters and worlds. But romance is “unrealistic,” critics say, doing readers a disservice by not accurately representing human experiences. It is considered by some to be a distraction from real literature, a distraction from real life, and little more. Yet is it possible that romance is expressing a truth—and a truth unrecognized by realist genres? The Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages, Karen Sullivan argues, consistently ventriloquizes in its pages the criticisms that were being made of romance at the time, and implicitly defends itself against those criticisms. The Danger of Romance shows that the conviction that ordinary reality is the only reality is itself an assumption, and one that can blind those who hold it to the extraordinary phenomena that exist around them. It demonstrates that that which is rare, ephemeral, and inexplicable is no less real than that which is commonplace, long-lasting, and easily accounted for. If romance continues to appeal to audiences today, whether in its Arthurian prototype or in its more recent incarnations, it is because it confirms the perception—or even the hope—of a beauty and truth in the world that realist genres deny.

Author : Leah Tether,Keith Busby
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110639032

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Rewriting Medieval French Literature by Leah Tether,Keith Busby Pdf

Jane H. M. Taylor is one of the world's foremost scholars of rewriting or réécriture. Her focus has been on literature in medieval and Renaissance France, but rewriting, including continuation, translation, and adaptation, lies at the heart of literary traditions in all vernaculars. This book explores both the interdisciplinarity of rewriting and Taylor's remarkable contribution to its study. The rewriting and reinterpretation of narratives across chronological, social and/or linguistic boundaries represents not only a crucial feature of text transmission, but also a locus of cultural exchange. Taylor has shown that the adaptation of material to conform to the expectations, values, or literary tastes of a different audience can reveal important information regarding the acculturation and reception of medieval texts. In recent years, numerous scholars across disciplines have thus turned to this field of enquiry. This collection of studies dedicated to the rewriting of medieval French literature from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries by Taylor’s friends, colleagues, and former students offers not only a fitting tribute to Taylor’s career, but also a timely consolidation of the very latest research in the field, which will be vital for all scholars of medieval rewriting. With contributions from Jessica Taylor, Keith Busby, Leah Tether, Logan E. Whalen, Mireille Séguy, Christine Ferlampin-Acher, Ad Putter, Anne Salamon, Patrick Moran, Nathalie Koble, Bart Besamusca, Frank Brandsma, Richard Trachsler, Carol J. Chase, Maria Colombo Timelli, Laura Chuhan Campbell, Joan Tasker-Grimbert, Jean-Claude Mühlethaler, Michelle Szkilnik, Thomas Hinton, Elizabeth Archibald.

Author : Luke Sunderland
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843842200

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Old French Narrative Cycles by Luke Sunderland Pdf

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 heroic figures, arguing that competition between alternative heroes within these texts makes them a discourse on heroism. Using a theoretical framework deriving from Lacanian psychoanalysis, the study reveals anxieties surrounding the hero's relationship to the "good" the hero oscillates between support for moral ideals and subversive assertions of freedom that can lead to evil and death. Ultimately, it is contended that the instability of the hero as conduit for morality produces textual confusion and generates the myriad differing versions of these vast and perplexing works. LUKE SUNDERLAND is Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Durham.

Author : Leah Tether
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843843160

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The Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval by Leah Tether Pdf

The Continuations of Chretien de Troyes' Perceval are here examined as constituting a discrete genre of medieval literature. The notion of Continuation in medieval literature is a familiar one - but difficult to define precisely. Despite the existence of important texts which are commonly referred to as Continuations, such as Le Roman de la Rose,Le Chevalier de la Charrette and, of course, the Perceval Continuations, the mechanics and processes involved in actually producing a Continuation have found themselves indistinguishable from those associated with other forms of medieval réécriture. The Perceval Continuations (composed c.1200-1230) constitute a vast body of material which incorporates four separately authored Continuations, each of which seeks to further,in some way, the unfinished Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes - though they are not merely responses to his work. Chronologically, they were composed one after the other, and the next in line picks up where the previous one left off; they thus respond intertextually to each other as well as to Chrétien, and only one actually furnishes the story as a whole with an ending. Here, these fascinating texts are used as a lens for examining, defining and distinguishing the whole concept of a Continuation; the author also employs theories as to what constitutes an "end" and what is "unfinished", alongside scrutiny of other medieval "ends" and Continuations. Dr Leah Tether isa Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Cultures of the Digital Economy Institute, Anglia Ruskin University.

Author : Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191565267

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Chrétien Continued by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner Pdf

Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner provides the first book-length examination of all four verse continuations that follow Chrétien's unfinished Grail story, a powerful site of rewriting from the late twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. By focusing on the dialogue between Chrétien and the verse continuators, this study demonstrates how the patterns and puzzles inscribed in the first author's romance continue to guide his successors, whose additions and reinventions throw new light back on the problems medieval readers and writers found in the mother text: questions about society and the individual; love, gender relations, and family ties; chivalry, violence, and religion; issues of collective authorship and doubled heroes, interpretation, rewriting, and canon formation. However far the continuations appear to wander from the master text, the manuscript tradition supports an implicit claim of oneness extending across the multiplicity of discordant voices combined in a dozen different manuscript compilations, the varying ensembles in which most medieval readers encountered Chrétien's Conte. Indeed, considered as a group the continuators show remarkable fidelity in integrating his romance's key elements, as they respond sympathetically to the dynamic incongruities and paradoxical structure of their model, its desire for and deferral of ending, its non-Aristotelian logic of 'and/both' in which contiguity forces interpretation and further narrative elaboration. Unlike their prose competitors, the verse continuators remain faithful to the dialectical movement inscribed across the interlace of two heroes' intertwined stories, the contradictory yet complementary spirit that propels Chrétien's decentered Conte du Graal.

Author : Rupert T. Pickens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476618593

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Perceval and Gawain in Dark Mirrors by Rupert T. Pickens Pdf

An innovative author of verse romance, Chretien de Troyes wrote in northern France between 1170 and 1190. Credited with the first Arthurian romance, he composed five works set in King Arthur's court, culminating with an unfinished masterpiece, the Conte del Graal (Story of the Grail). This text is the first to mention the banquet serving dish that became the Holy Grail in early efforts to rewrite or complete the text. This book focuses on the Conte's narrative depiction of mirrors real and metaphorical: shining armor, a polished golden eagle, the Grail itself, St. Paul's enigmatic looking glass, the blood drops in snow in which Perceval sees the face of his beloved. The last chapter joins the controversy over Chretien's intended conclusion, and proposes a climactic ending in which Perceval, heir to the Grail kingdom, confronts his double, Gawain, heir to Arthur's Logres.

Author : Alfred Trübner Nutt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : OXFORD:N11510041

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Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail by Alfred Trübner Nutt Pdf

Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UOM:39015024072418

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Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UCAL:B4684605

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Publications of the Folk-lore Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139825498

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger Pdf

This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.

Author : Mireille Séguy
Publisher : Honoré Champion
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : UOM:39015050024275

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Les romans du Graal ou le signe imaginé by Mireille Séguy Pdf

Les romans du Graal des XIIe et XIIIe siècles, du Conte du graal de Chrétien à l'immense cycle du Lancelot-Graal, forment l'un des ensembles littéraires médiévaux les plus difficilement frayables. Cet ensemble frappe d'abord par son ampleur : le Graal a occupé le centre de la grande majorité des romans en prose de la première moitié du XIIIe siècle. Il frappe également par sa densité : qui s'aventure dans les romans du Graal doit tôt ou tard accepter de s'y perdre, abusé par les effets d'entrelacement et les jeux de miroirs qui s'établissent d'un récit l'autre, d'un épisode l'autre. Il s'impose enfin comme un piège labyrinthique pour la critique d'identification, qui s'est longtemps épuisée à tenter de cerner les origines extra-littéraires du Graal. Si ces romans ont constitué - et constituent toujours - un tel pôle d'attraction pour la pratique littéraire et l'enquête critique, c'est sans doute parce que le Graal s'est d'emblée imposé comme un objet littéraire faisant signe vers autre chose que lui-même, creusant le questionnement sans jamais le combler. Que ce signe ait rapidement acquis les caractéristiques d'un signe divin, tout à la fois relique (remembrance) et manifestation de Dieu (demoustrance), demande à être interrogé. Pourquoi, à un moment de son histoire, et alors même que la fiction en langue vulgaire est en train d'imposer sa légitimité, la littérature romanesque s'est-elle si continûment élaborée autour de la mise en scène d'un signe divin ? Comment, d'autre part, a-t-elle pu importer dans la sphère de la fiction - et cela sans scandale - des modes de signification et de représentation jusque-là réservés aux textes scripturaires, à leur exégèse et à leur mise en images ? Enfin, ce transfert a-t-il marqué un assujettissement du littéraire au religieux ou, au contraire, une ouverture du champ d'expérimentation de la fiction romanesque ?

Author : Thomas Edward Kelly
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 2600035370

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Le Haut Livre Du Graal, Perlesvaus by Thomas Edward Kelly Pdf

Author : Leah Tether,Johnny McFadyen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110432466

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Handbook of Arthurian Romance by Leah Tether,Johnny McFadyen Pdf

The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin chronicles of "historians" such as Geoffrey of Monmouth into masterful literary works like the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Evidently a big hit, Arthur found himself being swiftly translated, adapted and integrated into the literary traditions of almost every European vernacular during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This Handbook seeks to showcase the European character of Arthurian romance both past and present. By working across national philological boundaries, which in the past have tended to segregate the study of Arthurian romance according to language, as well as by exploring primary texts from different vernaculars and the Latin tradition in conjunction with recent theoretical concepts and approaches, this Handbook brings together a pioneering and more complete view of the specifically European context of Arthurian romance, and promotes the more connected study of Arthurian literature across the entirety of its European context.