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- Title
THE GRAIL AS A 'CONVERTED' OBJECT: LITERARY FICTION AND HISTORICAL ARCHETYPES.
- Authors
DURAN-PORTA, JOAN
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the medieval European literary work "Li Contes del graal," by Chrétien de Troyes is presented. Topics discussed include the appearance of the grail as a luxury item in de Troyes' work, the rhetorical characterization of the grail in de Troyes' verses, the comparison between grail and scutella, and the inspirations for de Troyes' grail.
- Subjects
MEDIEVAL literature; CHRETIEN, de Troyes, fl. 12th century; OBJECTS in literature; GRAIL in literature; GRAIL
- Publication
Medium Aevum, 2021, Vol 90, Issue 1, p110
- ISSN
0025-8385
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.2307/27089829