Love's Masks by Merritt R Blakeslee

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French Tristan poets of the 12th century worked within a self-contained tradition. In the process of retelling the Tristan matter they elaborated a network of connections among the narrative elements of the French Tristan poems. This book traces the poets' conscious thought processes and unconscious associations as they reworked their material.

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Love's Masks by Merritt R Blakeslee

French Tristan poets of the 12th century worked within a self-contained tradition. In the process of retelling the Tristan matter they elaborated a network of connections among the narrative elements of the French Tristan poems. This book traces the poets' conscious thought processes and unconscious associations as they reworked their material.
`Love's Masks raises provocative questions about the Old French Tristan poems and their context and provides some suggestive answers' Donald Hoffman, QUONDAM ET FUTURUS, Vol. I, No 1 Spring 1991 `a highly readable, useful overview of the Tristan corpus, an excellent introduction for students and a suggestive analysis for specialists.' SPECULUM1/92 Through exmination of the metaphorical use of narrative detail, Blakeslee `..offers an absorbing and sensitive portrayal of Tristan through three major aspects: Tristan's social entities, Tristan's disguises, and Tristan victim and saviour'. * CHOICE *
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ISBN 13 9780859912648
ISBN 10 0859912647
Title Love's Masks
Author Merritt R Blakeslee
Series Arthurian Studies
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher D.S.Brewer
Year published 1989-05-04
Number of pages 175
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