12. The Idea of a Cycle: Malory, the Lancelot-Grail, and the Prose Tristan

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transformations 1
4. 1. From Lancelot to Galahad: The Stakes of Filiation 14
5. 2. Variations in the Patterns of Interlace in the Lancelot-Grail 31
6. 3. Age and the Ages of Life in the Prose Lancelot 51
7. 4. The Narration of Youthful Exploits in the Prose Lancelot 67
8. 5. The Mort Artu and Cyclic Closure 85
9. 6. Autobiography and History in the Vulgate Estoire and in the Prose Merlin 98
10. 7. "Or dist li contes": Narrative Interventions and the Implied Audience in the Estoire del Saint Graal 117
11. 8. Cite or Vile? A Lexical Problem in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle 139
12. 9. Ladies Don't Wear Braies: Underwear and Outerwear in the French Prose Lancelot 152
13. 10. The Acclimatization of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in Spain and Portugal 175
14. 11. An Italian Reaction to the French Prose Lancelot- Grail Cycle: Matteo Maria Boiardo and the Knight's Quest for Identity 191
15. 12. The Idea of a Cycle: Malory, the Lancelot-Grail, and the Prose Tristan 206
16. 13. Lancelot's Vocation: Traitor Saint 219
17. Index 239