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Article: Shifts and Transpositions in Medieval Narrative: a Festschrift for Dr Elspeth Kennedy.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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This collection of essays, published to mark Elspeth Kennedy's retirement, covers a wide variety of texts, genres and approaches, focusing on shifting emphases of translation, the interweaving of genres, and the reconfiguration of motifs. Emanuele Baumgartner employs Genette's distinction between 'diction' and 'fiction' to analyse the move from roman d'antiquite to Arthurian romance, distinguishing a shift from the historic and factual to an imagined and self-referential world. This shift from epic to romance is the subject of the essay by Sara Sturm-Maddox and Donald Maddox, which examines the interweaving of elements of chanson de geste and romance in the Old French ...