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Romance: Generic Transformation from Chrétien de Troyes to Cervantes

Kevin Brownlee

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Thirteen scholars examine changing conceptions of the romance genre that flourished widely during the formative centuries of French, Italian, and Spanish literature. Combining an awareness of new critical approaches with close readings of individual texts, they bring historical perspective to bear on an issue of literary theory that has itself changed radically over time. Collectively they present a thematic, topical, and methodological diversity that yields a sense of the full meaning of romance in its many aspects. Growing out of the 1982 Dartmouth Colloquium on Medieval and Early Modern Romance Literatures, the book will interest a diverse audience of students and scholars, comparatists and literary historians, philologists and literary theorists. --- Preface; Introduction; What Bakhtin Left The Case of the Medieval Romance / Cesare Segre; Amorous Bakhtin, Augustine, and Le Roman d'Eneas / Stephen G. Nichols; Romance and the Vanity of Chretien De Troyes / Douglas Kelly; La Chevalerie Spiritual Transformations of Secular Romance in La queste del Saint Graal / Nancy Freeman-Regalado; Jean De Meun and the Limits of Genius as Rewriter of Guillaume de Lorris / Kevin Brownlee; Renewal and Undermining of Old French Jehan de Saintre / Karl D. Uitti; Rabelais, Romances, Reading, Righting Names / Edward Morris; The Boat of Romance and Renaissance Epic / David Quint; The Romance of Chivalry in From Rodriguez de Montalvo to Cervantes / Harry Sieber; Cervantes as Reader of Ariosto / Marina Scordilis Brownlee; The Truth of the The Place of Romance in the Works of Cervantes / Ruth S. El Saffar; Where Have All the "Old Knights" Gone?: L'astrée / Louise K. Horowitz; The Problems of Generic Transformation / Ralph Cohn

293 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1985