Thirteenth-century verse romances are curious and complex works that are still largely misunderstood. Having been created in an epigonal era they closely imitate their twelfth-century models, borrowing themes and even entire passages from model texts. This extensive borrowing is what instigated most of the negative criticism that still affects these late verse romances. The recent developments in genre theory, however, enable us to better understand these epigonal poems. As we examine thirteenth-century verse romances along the lines of parody we find that many of these poems actually constitute a literary criticism, parodying the model texts in an effort to intragenerically question and update them. / La Vengeance Raguidel is such a parodic text. It embodies the questioning and the criticizing of the values and the codification of the generic system to which it belongs. The poet Raols's use of parody is one of carefully selecting various themes from different models belonging to different genres and successfully recombining them, after having reworked them to various degrees. Through this sophisticated use of parody Raols illustrates his critical view of the model text's ideology. This critical view of the Arthurian world and its code constitutes a strong thematic structure that links the different episodes of the poem together. The infusion of elements belonging to other literary genres has been devised in function of, and contributes directly to, the thematic structure of the poem. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-10, Section: A, page: 3522. / Major Professor: Lori Walters. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76748 |
| Contributors | Pallemans, Geert Steven., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 199 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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