Shaping Romance Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions

It's not the knights and ladies, the fantastic adventures, or the erotic tests that interest Bruckner (French, Boston College) so much as the means of attaining narrative complexity, particularly in the shifting of authorial stances and the meanings of signs. She examines five 12th-century poems, complete and fragmentary, famous and obscure, long and short. Does not assume a knowledge of French. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR