Martorell's Tirant Lo Blanch

A Program for Military and Social Reform in Fifteenth-Century Christendom

Edward T. Aylward (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1985
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-9229-9 (ISBN)

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Provides the first critical analysis of the Catalan novel of chivalry, Tirant lo Blanch (1490). By breaking down the story into two fundamental narrative threads - the military and erotic exploits of the hero - Aylward reveals the two-pronged narrative scheme that supports Martorell's fast-paced and amusing account of romance and political intrigue in fifteenth-century Constantinople.

This first critical analysis of the Catalan novel of chivalry, Tirant lo Blanch (1490), elucidates the sophisticated plan that lies behind its composition. By breaking down the 487-chapter story into two fundamental narrative threads-the military and erotic exploits of the hero-Aylward reveals the two-pronged narrative scheme that supports Martorell's fast-paced and amusing account of romance and political intrigue in fifteenth-century Constantinople.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2018
Reihe/Serie	North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8078-9229-7 / 0807892297
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-9229-9 / 9780807892299
Zustand	Neuware