Shaping romance: interpretation, truth, and closure in twelfth-century French fictions

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.

Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Truth in Disguise: The Voice of Renarration in the Folie Tristan d^Oxford --; 2. Putting Off the Ending: Thomas and the Legend of Tristan and Iseut --; 3. A Case for mise en abyme: Chretien's Chevalier de la Charrete --; 4. The Interplay of Gender and Genres in Partonopeu de Blois --; 5. Textual Identity and the Name of a Collection: Marie de France's Lais --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography of Works Cited --; Index --; Backmatter