The Epic Quest: Studies in Four Old French Chansons de Geste |
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... appears in literature as the projection of a very real , if unconscious , class tension , literature serving as a weapon in , and an escape from , class struggle . The individual literary character is typed accord- ing to his class ...
... appears in literature as the projection of a very real , if unconscious , class tension , literature serving as a weapon in , and an escape from , class struggle . The individual literary character is typed accord- ing to his class ...
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... appears three times with an army - at Tormont , Babylon , and Bordeaux . In the last city he will also reveal Gaudisse's teeth and hair , which Gérard had hidden , and with equal swiftness will hang the traitors from a gibbet . As for ...
... appears three times with an army - at Tormont , Babylon , and Bordeaux . In the last city he will also reveal Gaudisse's teeth and hair , which Gérard had hidden , and with equal swiftness will hang the traitors from a gibbet . As for ...
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... appears on the scene . He agrees to whatever request is made but almost immediately thereafter refuses to obey . Huon displays heroism and weakness , prudence and folly , conformity and independence . Each state follows directly the one ...
... appears on the scene . He agrees to whatever request is made but almost immediately thereafter refuses to obey . Huon displays heroism and weakness , prudence and folly , conformity and independence . Each state follows directly the one ...
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adventures Amauri ambush Ami and Amile Ami et Amile Ami's Amile's appears archetypal Auberon Aymeri de Narbonne Babylon battle Belissant Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube Blaye blood Boniface Chanson d'Ami chanson de geste Chanson de Roland character Charlemagne Charles Charles's Charlot Christian Claresme Claresme's comedy comic court courtly Duke Dunostre emperor enemy Ermengarde Esclarmonde father Ferrant feudal folklore France Garin Gautier Gaydon genre Gériaume Germans Girard de Roussillon Guillaume Hardré hero hero's heroic Hugues humor Huon de Bordeaux Huon's ideal killed king knight leprosy literary literature Lord Lubias marry medieval messengers motifs Naimes narrative nature Oede Ogier Old French Epic Orgueilleux pagans Paris parody pattern Pavia Pèlerinage de Charlemagne poem poem's protagonist quest Raoul de Cambrai Renaud de Montauban role romance rustic Saracen Savari seeks Song of Roland stylized supernatural symbolic theme tion Tormont tradition traitors triumph trouvère vavassor victory vilain young youth