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Project

The Romance between Greece and the West. Heroes and Heroines in French, Anglo-Norman and English medieval narrative.

This project reconstructs and interprets the persistence of (ancient) novelistic and (late antique and medieval) hagiographical traditions in vernacular medieval romance. Narratological and rhetorical analyses trace diachronic continuities and synchronic differentiation in the characterization of heroes. The study can thus enhance our knowledge about the medieval reception of ancient narrating strategies and the literary complexities of an influential, fictional genre.

Date:1 Oct 2021 →  Today
Keywords:hagiography, heroism, Vernacular medieval narrative
Disciplines:Literatures in English, Classical literature, Narratology, Rhetoric, Literatures in French, Medieval literature, Stylistics and textual analysis