Shaping romance

Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

"In Shaping Romance, Matilda Bruckner examines a set of five twelfth-century romance texts - complete and fragmentary, canonical and now neglected, long and short - to map out the characteristics and boundaries of the genre in its formative period. Bruckner contends that, in the explosion of literary works that characterize the twelfth-century Renaissance, romance plays a particularly exuberant role, with its gift for experimentation in form and ideas and its taste for a wide array of materials combined through intergeneric mixing."--BOOK JACKET. "Bruckner is concerned not so much with the subject matter of romance - its narratives of knights and ladies, fantastic adventures, and erotic tests - as with the various ways in which it achieves narrative complexity: authorial stances and the meanings of signs frequently shift within the texts, as poems do, or do not, find closure. Through...

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