Romance Epic

Essays on a Medieval Literary Genre

Edited by Hans-Erich Keller

Book cover: Romance Epic

Extent: 251 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Studies in Medieval Culture

Language: English

Paperback (Out of print)

(December 1987)

ISBN: 9780918720863

Price: $34.95

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Hardback (Published)

(July 1987)

ISBN: 9780918720856

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $19.95

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The collection of essays in Romance Epic expertly examines the Romance epic as a genre, delving into its ever-changing period, audience, and region. The essays span across a wide range of different topics: the specificity of the Romance epic and how well it fits into the genre of epic at all, the structure of the chansons de geste, school influences on the Old French, the reconstruction of lost chansons de geste, the evolution of the genre through centuries, and topics specific to certain works, such as problems in the Chanson de Roland and the El Cantar de Mio Cid.

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Hans-Erich Keller Towards the Morphology of the Romance Epic by Ruth House Webber Textes medievaux et tradition: la chanson de geste est-elle une epopee? by William Calin Measuring Units of Poetic Discourse: Analogies between Laisse and Verse in the chanson de geste by Edward A. Heinemann A l'altre feiz: Narrative and Structural Patterns in the Chanson de Guillaume by Barbara Schurfranz Moorman On Structuring Baudouin de Sebourc by Larry S. Crist Au commencement etait l'ecole (de theologie): A New Paradigm for the Study of the Old French Epic by J. L. Roland Belanger L'hegemonie normande dans la Chanson de Roland et les Gesta Tancredi: De la Neustrie a la chretiente, ou Turold est-il nationaliste? by Jean Charles Payen Forest and Voyage: Signs of Sententia in the Entree d'Espagne by Nancy Bradley-Cromey Reconstructing the Lost Chanson de Basin: Was it a Couronnement de Charlemagne? by Constance B. Hieatt In Search of the Lost Epics of the Lower Rhone Valley by Alice M. Colby-Hall The Evolution of the Matter of Fierabras: Present State of Research by Andre de Mandach Le developpement de la Geste de Montauban en France jusqu'a la fin du moyen age by Francois Suard Ganelon's Defense by Emanuel J. Mickel Jr. Three Old French Magicians: Maugis, Basin, and Auberon by William W. Kibler Saracen Heroes in Adenet le Roi by Peter S. Noble On the Saracens in Early Italian Chivalric Literature by Antonio Franceschetti La imagen del rey en el Cantar de Mio Cid by Aristobulo Pardo The Economy of Mio Cid by Miguel Garci-Gomez Contributors, Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Hans-Erich Keller
Towards the Morphology of the Romance Epic by Ruth House Webber
Textes médiévaux et tradition: la chanson de geste est-elle une épopée? by William Calin
Measuring Units of Poetic Discourse: Analogies between Laisse and Verse in the chanson de geste by Edward A. Heinemann
A l’altre feiz: Narrative and Structural Patterns in the Chanson de Guillaume by Barbara Schurfranz Moorman
On Structuring Baudouin de Sebourc by Larry S. Crist
“Au commencement était l'école (de théologie)”: A New Paradigm for the Study of the Old French Epic by J. L. Roland Bélanger
L’hégémonie normande dans la Chanson de Roland et les Gesta Tancredi: De la Neustrie á la chrétienté, ou Turold est-il nationaliste? by Jean Charles Payen
Forest and Voyage: Signs of Sententia in the Entrée d’Espagne by Nancy Bradley-Cromey
Reconstructing the Lost Chanson de Basin: Was it a Couronnement de Charlemagne? by Constance B. Hieatt
In Search of the Lost Epics of the Lower Rhône Valley by Alice M. Colby-Hall
The Evolution of the Matter of Fierabras: Present State of Research by André de Mandach
Le développement de la Geste de Montauban en France jusqu’á la fin du moyen âge by François Suard
Ganelon’s Defense by Emanuel J. Mickel Jr.
Three Old French Magicians: Maugis, Basin, and Auberon by William W. Kibler
Saracen Heroes in Adenet le Roi by Peter S. Noble
On the Saracens in Early Italian Chivalric Literature by Antonio Franceschetti
La imagen del rey en el Cantar de Mio Cid by Aristóbulo Pardo
The Economy of Mio Cid by Miguel Garci-Gómez
Contributors

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