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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Not Really a Chivalric Romance

Primerjalna knji?evnost, 2019
Medieval English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is unique not only in its form, content and structure, but also in the poet’s skillful use of conventions that play with the reader’s expectations by introducing elements that make the poem ...
M. Jakovljević, V. Petković
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Genre Originality of Novel by M. Vargas Llosa “Green House”

Научный диалог, 2021
The genre nature of the novel “Green House” by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is analyzed in the article. Special attention is paid to three approaches to the definition of the genre: “Green House” as a total novel, as a chivalric novel and as an
O. K. Voicou, A. P. Zhukov, B. V. Kovalev   +2 more
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The Paradox of Chivalric Madness: Ariosto’s and Cervantes’s Madness Representations’ Impact on Disability Representation

Humanities
This study investigates the connection between madness and critiques of the chivalric romance genre in two late Renaissance works, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote de la Mancha.
Nicholas L. Johnson
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Apuntes sobre la noción de verosimilitud en el Quijote

Criticón, 2016
This article seeks to explore the notion of verisimilitude in Don Quixote. Verisimilitude, a central notion in Aristotelean poetics and veritable war horse of those that defended good fiction against chivalric romance, is nevertheless a notion that is ...
Marina Mestre Zaragozá
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Chaucer’s Treatment of Outlawry in 'Wife of Bath’s Tale' and 'Knight’s Tale'

Anglo Saxonica, 2020
The medieval outlaw appears in historical, religious, and legal texts of late Medieval England and is imagined in fiction as well, specifically in the romance narratives of Geoffrey Chaucer. Outlawry was a legal state that could be imposed. Chaucer found
Carolyn Gonzalez
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Gendering Action in Iberian Chivalric Romance

Medieval Feminist Forum, 2010
edieval Iberian chivalric romances offer countless possibilities to construct gender in diverse guises. In these romances we repeatedly encounter heroines who, in spite of the restrictions imposed on them, textually perform, and thus exhibit to the reader, the ambiguity and problematic nature of the female speaking subject. As E.
Piera, Montserrat, Shearn, Jodi
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The Beard Conceals and Reveals: Covert Hair in Fourteenth-Century Chivalric Romance

International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, 2019
What do beards indicate beyond physical aspects of sex? What do literary representations of beards and hair suggest in terms of masculinity? In the character portraits from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, male hair and beards are used by the ...
Kelsi Roth
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Analyzing the Stylistic-Linguistic Suitability of Mirjalaluddin Kazazi\'s Translation of Shaheswar Arrabeh by Chértin Dutroy based on the Action Space of the Text [In Persian]

زبان کاوی کاربردی, 2023
A high example of battle and honor in romance (a subgenre of narrative poetry in European literature), the idea of the knight and chivalry developed gradually across history from the early Roman Empire to the middle of the Middle Ages.
Alireza Farah Bakhsh, Helia Moayeri Farsi   +1 more
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How to Defeat a Dragon, or Medical Sources of Lapidary and Herbarium Motifs in J. Metham’s Chivalric Romance ‘Amoryus and Cleopes’ (1449)

Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология
The subject of research in this article is the motifs of medieval descriptive scientific works, primarily in the genres of lapidary and herbarium; the material of the study is the medieval English chivalric romance Amoryus and Cleopes, underestimated by ...
V. Semyonov
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Female Authority during the Knights’ Quest ? Recluses in the Queste del Saint Graal

Bulletin du Centre d’Études Médiévales d’Auxerre, 2016
Female recluses were prominent in the medieval spiritual landscapes, but, unlike hermits, these vigorously enclosed women are almost non-existent in medieval romance.
Anastasija Ropa
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