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The subjects of medieval romance are the great and permanent concerns of the human mind. A literature is best approached by newcomers, through its major achievements, the author of this book, originally published in 1973, maintains. The book's discussion centres on the romances of Chaucer and Chrétien de Troyes, and on such texts as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Roman de la Rose, and Malory's Morte d'Arthur. The book's introductory chapters stress the continuity between medieval and later literature.
Contents
1.Introduction: The Permanence of Romance 2. Man and Woman: Idealisms of Love 3. Man and Society: The Romance of the 'Gentil' Man 4. Man and Superman: The Romance of the Self 5. Man and Supernature: The Marvellous in Romance 6. Man and God: Religion and Romance 8. Realism and Romance: 'Characters' and Types 9. Realism and Romance: Discourse of Love 10. The Storyteller and the Poet 11. Epilogue: The Pervasiveness of Romance. Historical Note on English and French Romances.