Title The beginnings of medieval romance : fact and fiction, 1150-1220 / D.H. Green.

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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 292 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 47
	Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 47.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-285) and index.
Contents	Defining twelfth-century fictionality -- Vernacular fiction in the twelfth century -- Fictive orality -- Fiction and Wolfram's Parzival -- Fiction and structure -- Fiction and history.
Summary	Until the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, but the second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre consciously conceived as fictional, the romance. Dennis Green explores how and why this shift occurred.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Romances -- History and criticism.
	Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
	TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
	Literature, Medieval. (OCoLC)fst01000151
	Romances. (OCoLC)fst01099892
	Romancen.
	Höfisches Epos.
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form:	Print version: Green, D.H. (Dennis Howard), 1922-2008. Beginnings of medieval romance. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521813999 (DLC) 2001052856 (OCoLC)48469134
ISBN	0511020570 (electronic bk.)
	9780511020575 (electronic bk.)
	0511120532 (electronic bk.)
	9780511120534 (electronic bk.)
	9780511485787 (electronic bk.)
	0511485786 (electronic bk.)

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