The Chansons de Geste in the Age of Romance: Political Fictions

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This is a major reassessment of the relation between the medieval French chansons de geste and the romance genre. Critics have often dismissed the chansons de geste as coming before and being inferior to the new and distinctively literary achievement of romance. Sarah Kay draws on the most up-to-date literary and feminist theory to show that the two genres in fact existed simultaneously, engaged in a productive and revealing dialogue. Each genre,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198151926

ISBN13:9780198151920

Release Date:January 1996

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.04 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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