French Studies 74
74 French Studies LATE MEDIEVAL LITERATURE By Leslie C. Brook, University of Birmingham 1. Narrative Genres epic. R. Colliot, ‘Le personnage de Renier dans les Enfances Renier: romanesque et conformisme’, PRIS-MA, 12:117–32, demonstrates how the poem reflects and recasts commonplace epic themes, with an overriding desire by the hero throughout to discover his proper lineage and be worthy of it. M.-F. Notz, ‘Nature et surnaturel dans Tristan de Nanteuil’, Actes (Groningen), 77–82, analyses the eVect of the mixture of epic and romance motifs in this lengthy, complex poem. L. Crist, ‘Baudouin de Flandres et le ‘‘Deuxie`me Cycle de la Croisade’’’, ib., 141–50, re-examines the evidence for connecting the fragment of this lost poem to the cycle, and reverts to his earlier opinion that there is no connection. M. Malfait-Dohet, ‘La fonction de la baˆtardise dans la de´finition du he´ros e´pique du Deuxie`me Cycle de la Croisade’, ib., 167–76, selects two chansons within the cycle, Baudouin de Sebourc and the Baˆtard de Bouillon, and analyses the diVering reactions to their condition by the two heroes, raising the question of the social, political, and moral issues involved. L. Brook, ‘Roland devant le monde sarrasin dans l’Entre´e d’Espagne’, ib., 209–16, concentrates on an analysis of Roland’s fight against Ferragu and his journey to the Near East, which mark two distinct stages in the presentation of R. as a hero. L. Zarker Morgan, ‘The ‘‘narrator’’ in Italian epic: Franco- Italian tradition’, ib., 481–90, examines the diVerent roles of the narrator in five texts (Geste Francor, Aliscans, Gui de Nanteuil, Entre´e d’Espagne, and its continuation), and links her findings with later Italian developments as typified by Ariosto.
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