The Chansons de Geste in the Age of Romance: Political Fictions

by Sarah Kay

This is a major reassessment of the relation between the medieval French chansons de geste and the romance genre. Critics have often dismissed the chansons de geste as coming before and being inferior to the new and distinctively literary achievement of romance. Sarah Kay draws on the most up-to-date literary and feminist theory to show that the two genres in fact existed simultaneously, engaged in a productive and revealing dialogue. Each genre,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198151926
• ISBN13: 9780198151920
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"