The beginnings of medieval romance : fact and fiction, 1150-1220
Title:
The beginnings of medieval romance : fact and fiction, 1150-1220
JLCTITLE245:
D.H. Green.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Physical Description:
xiii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780521813990
9780511325625
Abstract:
Until the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, but the second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre consciously conceived as fictional, the romance. Dennis Green explores how and why this shift occurred.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-285) and index.
Contents:
Defining twelfth-century fictionality -- Vernacular fiction in the twelfth century -- Fictive orality -- Fiction and Wolfram's Parzival -- Fiction and structure -- Fiction and history.