Medieval Romance: Themes and Approaches

by John E. Stevens

Overview

“A fine analysis of the enduring qualities of medieval romance, which Mr. Stevens suggests are qualities found in good fiction of any era.” —E. Talbot Donaldson

The romance, the major secular genre for three hundred years, stands to medieval literature as the novel stands to the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mr. Stevens stresses, especially in his introductory chapters, the continuity between medieval and later literature. The subjects of medieval romance are the great and permanent concerns of the human mind—man loving, man fighting, man alone, man with his lover, his leader, or friends, man facing mystery, or death, man seeking God.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393007152
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/17/1974
Series:	Norton Library Series , #715
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)