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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      28 May 1998
      ISBN:
      9781139166492
      9780521411530
      9780521025652
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139166492
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.67kg, 374 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.567kg, 376 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (35)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (35)
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    This 1998 study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to Chrétien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French. It describes the evolutionary changes taking place between Chrétien's Eric et Enide and Froissart's Meliador, the first and last examples of the genre, and is unique in placing Chrétien's work, not as the unequalled masterpieces of the whole of Arthurian literature, but as the starting point for the history of the genre, which can subsequently be traced over a period of two centuries in the French-speaking world. Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann's study was first published in German in 1985, but her radical argument that we need urgently to redraw the lines on the literary and linguistic map of medieval Britain and France is only now being made available in English.

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    "In English the book reads with remarkable freshness. Scholarship on the verse romances has continued in recent years, but has concentrated on the production of (very welcome) new editions and articles on fashionable aspects of individual texts; Schmolke-Hasselmann's breadth of approach remains unparalleled. Like all the best criticism, Schmolke-Hasselmann's book raises as many stimulating questions as it answers." Rosemary Morris, Albion

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