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Article: Fictions of Identity in Medieval France.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Fictions of Identity in Medieval France. By DONALD MADDOX. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xx + 295 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].
Taking as its database some of the principal monuments of romance and lai from the twelfth to the late fourteenth centuries, this book examines a particular aspect of the textual construction of selfhood: the scenario in which a character is suddenly given previously unknown information about his or her situation, ancestry, identity, or destiny. This structure of revelation, which mirrors the character to him- or herself in a new context, is categorized by Donald Maddox as the ...
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