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Nicola Morato

Il ciclo di «Guiron le Courtois». Strutture e testi nella tradizione manoscritta

HB pp. XXX-438, € 64,00

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2010
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978-88-8450-410-4
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The volume deals admirably with the precarious balance between a modern reading of manuscript sources, along with their text-like characteristics, and a structural definition of the romance, arriving at a broad interpretation of narrative mechanism, ultimately redrawing ex novo the boundaries of the identity of the text and a convincing outline of its tradition. The result reveals the substance of two major and distinct branches, the Roman de Meliadus and the Roman de Guiron, only in a second moment (but still during the 13th century) brought together and then integrated with a third branch, a retrospective Guiron Suite. This work offers a challenging structural reading with constant reference to earlier prose cycles from Lancelot to Tristan, redefined in terms of polarities between final intention and discursive practice, both gradually more prevalent in the narrative of the entire tradition. This first attempt at narrative interpretation of the overall cycle is supplemented by critical revision of the Meliadus texts, constituting the first genealogical tree of such a complex tradition. On the basis of this study, the "Gruppo Guiron" has begun work on an edition of the entire cycle.
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