The Polylithic Romance: With Pages of Illustrations

Author / Editor
Gunn, Alan M. F.

Title
The Polylithic Romance: With Pages of Illustrations

Published
Betsy Feagan Colquitt, ed. Studies in Medieval Renaissance American Literature: A Festschrift [Honoring Troy C. Crenshaw, Lorraine Sherley, Ruth Speer Angell] (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1971), pp. 1-18..

Description
Proposes a "taxonomy" of medieval romance, which is epitomized by "chivalric romance," but ranges widely in mode, tone, and motif from "proto-romance" to "counter-romance." Characterizes various forms and sub-forms and includes tabular anatomies of "Modes and Aspects" in TC, the variety of "Emerging Aspects" of KnT, and the "Genre Patterns" of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."

Alternative Title
Studies in Medieval Renaissance American Literature: A Festschrift [Honoring Troy C. Crenshaw, Lorraine Sherley, Ruth Speer Angell].

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale