ABSTRACT
First published in 1996. Intertextuality the phenomenon is as old as literature itself. And to medievalists in particular, it was a critical commonplace long before the term was coined: we have routinely recognized that, during the Middle Ages, texts consistently borrowed from one another and from the traditions they all shared. Those borrowings can take the form of thematic echoes, of the appropriation of characters and situations, and even of direct citation. This volume is a collection of essays discussing the intertextual dimensions of Arthurian literature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Generic Intertextuality in the English Alliterative Morte Arthure
The Italian Connection
chapter |10 pages
Lancelot in the Middle Dutch Play Lanseloet Van Denemerken
An Example of Generic Intertextuality
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chapter |21 pages
The Long and the Short of Lancelot's Departure from Logres
Abbreviation as Rewriting in La Mort le roi Artu