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Irony in the Medieval Romance (Hardcover)
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Despite the fashionable standing of irony in studies of modern
literature and its occasional application to medieval studies in a
number of recent works, no sustained analysis of this phenomenon
has yet been attempted for medieval literature. Professor Green
attempts to fill the most important part of this lacuna by
discussing irony in the medieval genre in which it is employed most
frequently and with the greatest sophistication, the romance. The
approach is therefore directed more towards the genre as such than
to any specific example, and, although the book is written
primarily from a Germanist's point of view, it also takes into
account the romances of Chretien de Troyes and their German
adaptations, various examples from the Tristan tradition in France
and Germany, Flamenca as an example from Provence, as well as
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
from England. Proceeding from a working definition of medieval
irony and a survey of the signals which may allow us to perceive
its presence, Professor Green considers the possibilities,
rhetorical and otherwise, of registering irony in courtly
literature at large. From this he moves on to discuss the major
themes to which irony may be applied (chivalry and love), as well
as the ways in which the narrative is organised so as to bring out
any ironic implications of these themes. Subsequent chapters are
concerned with the various types of irony to be distinguished:
verbal irony, irony of the narrator, dramatic irony, the irony of
values, and structural irony. A concluding chapter sums up the
reasons, aesthetic and social, for the prevalence of irony in this
particular genre of medieval literature.
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