Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance
- Author / Editor
- Bliss, Jane.
Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance
- Published
- Rochester, N.Y.; and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xi, 253 pp.
- Series
- Studies in Medieval Romance.
- Description
- Bliss surveys the variety of ways that names, naming, and namelessness in romance "contribute to our understanding" of the genre, focusing on Middle English narratives but also discussing French and Anglo-Norman analogues. She identifies a number of "naming patterns and tendencies," uses them to define or clarify generic features of romance, and explores onomastic themes. References to Chaucer's works recur throughout, with brief sustained commentary on MLT (pp.150-54).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Man of Law and His Tale.