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This publication was assisted by a grant from the Trustees of Boston
College.

Portions of Chapters 1 and 2 first appeared as "The Folie Tristan d'Oxford: Speaking Voice,
Written Text," Tristania 7 (Autumn 1981-Spring 1982): 47-59 and "The Representation of
the Lovers' Death: Thomas' Tristan as Open Text," Tristania 9 (Autumn 1983 - Spring
1984): 49-61. Reprinted by permission.

A portion of Chapter 5 first appeared as "Strategies of Naming in Marie de France's Lais:
At the Crossroads of Genre and Gender," Neophilologus 75 ( 1991): 31-40. Reprinted by
permission.

Copyright © 1993 by the University of Pennsylvania Press

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bruckner Matilda Tomaryn.

Shaping romance: interpretation, truth, and closure in twelfth-century French
fictions / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner.

p. cm. -- (Middle Ages series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8122-3169-4

1. French poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism. 2. Tristan (Legendary charac-
ter) -- Romances -- History and criticism. 3. Narrative poetry, French -- History and
criticism. 4. Romances -- History and criticism. 5. Fictions, Theory of 6. Rhetoric,
Medieval. 7. Closure (Rhetoric). I. Title. II. Series.

PQ178.B78 1993

841'.030901 -- dc20 93-2069

CIP

-iv-

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Publication Information: Book Title: Shaping Romance: Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions. Contributors: Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner - author. Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press. Place of Publication: Philadelphia. Publication Year: 1993. Page Number: iv.
    
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