Narrative genres
Keith Busby
The anonymity of much medieval literature has encouraged and facilitated scholarly studies which posit the notional or actual existence genres in minds authors, audiences, readers on one hand, modern other. This chapter will not offer a survey narrative types but rather consider validity usefulness concept genre by looking at number individual texts from generic perspective weighing certain kinds evidence regarding perceptions form. I concentrate here verse twelfth thirteenth centuries, that is to say, period traditionally considered Old, as opposed Middle, French.
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