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- Title
Géraldine Toniutti, Les derniers vers du roman arthurien. Trajectoire d'un genre, anachronisme d'une forme (Publications romanes et françaises, 273), Genève, Droz, 2021, 665 p.
- Authors
Wolfzettel, Friedrich
- Abstract
The present work by Géraldine Toniutti, titled "Les derniers vers du roman arthurien. Trajectoire d'un genre, anachronisme d'une forme" (The Last Verses of the Arthurian Novel. Trajectory of a Genre, Anachronism of a Form), examines the Arthurian verse novel between 1260 and 1380. The work is divided into three main chapters, which deal with the choice of verse, verse practice, and the motif history of the novels. Texts that do not belong to the narrower genre-historical corpus but are closely related in terms of motifs are also discussed. The work discusses the development of the Arthurian verse novel as a non-linear trajectory nourished by various influences. Known elements of the verse novel are problematized, and the role of fiction, history, miracles, and myth is illuminated. The second main chapter examines the central problem of writing in verse after prose and emphasizes the division of labor between verse and prose. The third main chapter deals with the late phase of the Arthurian verse novel and postulates an aesthetics of lateness. The problematic nature of the heroic figure and the revaluation of the Arthurian image are discussed. Typical forms of the prose novel such as "entrelacement" and "quête multiple" are included, and intertextual references and the integration of the epic are pointed out.
- Subjects
NOVELS in verse; DIVISION of labor; TARDINESS; MIRACLES; AXIOMS
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, 2022, Vol 138, Issue 2, p595
- ISSN
0049-8661
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zrp-2022-0026