Lancelot and the Grail: A Study of the Prose Lancelot

ISBN-13: 9780198151708 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 408 str.

Elspeth Kennedy

Recenzje

Lancelot and the Grail is a landmark. It is the first book-length study devoted entirely to the Old French Lancelot since F.Lot's pioneering volume in 1918. To treat Lancelot and the Grail only as a companion to the noncyclic romance would be shortsighted, for while Kennedy's analysis provides a convincing argument in favor of her initial hypothesis, it is also an invaluable account of the artistry that operates in the cyclic romance. Kennedy's quiet, often understated style, her matter-of-fact tone, and the painstaking care with which she presents her analysis make Lancelot and the Grail a work of very readable, reliable scholarship. Certainly, no student of the Lancelot can afford to be without it, and scholars interested in the development of interlace and prose narrative cannot ignore it. Carol R. Dover, Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies

O autorze

Editor of The Prose Lancelot (OUP 1980)