Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner provides the first book-length examination of all four verse continuations that follow Chr--eacute--;tien's unfinished Grail story, a powerful site of rewriting from the late twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. By...
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Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner provides the first book-length examination of all four verse continuations that follow Chr--eacute--;tien's unfinished Grail story, a powerful site of rewriting from the late twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. By focusing on the dialogue between Chr--eacute--;tien 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 newlight back on the problems medieval readers and writers found in the mother text: questions about society a
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-263) and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Authorial Relays; 2. Telling Tales, Of Maidens in Tents; 3. Sons and Mothers, Mothers and Lovers; 4. Violent Swords and Utopian Plowshares; 5. Middles, Beginnings, and Ends; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Index
