Author: James Douglas Bruce
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Douglas Bruce
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-28
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9781527801257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Evolution of Arthurian Romance From the Beginnings Down to the Year 1300, Vol. 2 The announcement of Professor Bruce's death, five months ago, was a shocking surprise to his academic colleagues. He was widely known as a man of that well poised physical vigor which warrants plans reaching far into the future; and Professor Bruce bad eagerly entertained plans for a longer life than was to be his. The completion of the work now published brought to a close a period of a dozen years in which he almost exclusively devoted his study and research to the execution of the purpose he has briefly described in the preface to the first volume. He was attracted to this task by the conviction that by no less laborious undertaking could the complex history of the study of his chosen subject be surveyed and made available as a stimulating guide to future investigation and interpretation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-05-28
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780521411530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 1998 study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to Chrétien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French. It describes the evolutionary changes taking place between Chrétien's Eric et Enide and Froissart's Meliador, the first and last examples of the genre, and is unique in placing Chrétien's work, not as the unequalled masterpieces of the whole of Arthurian literature, but as the starting point for the history of the genre, which can subsequently be traced over a period of two centuries in the French-speaking world. Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann's study was first published in German in 1985, but her radical argument that we need urgently to redraw the lines on the literary and linguistic map of medieval Britain and France is only now being made available in English.