Chivalric Romance and the Essence of Fiction
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780786499830
Subjects: Romances, history and criticism; Literature, medieval, history and criticism; Literature, modern, history and criticism, 15th and 16th centuries
Description: "Ranging from Chrétien de Troyes to Shakespeare, this study proposes that the chivalric romance is characterized by a centerless structure, self-conscious fictionality and a propensity for irony. The form is tied to historical reality, yet represents the archetype of imaginative literature, declaring its fictional status without claiming to embody fixed truths"--