Chapter 2: The Structure and Unity of C1 and the C1/C2 Break

Corin F. V. Corley

From The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval: A Critical and Lexicographical Study (1987), pp. 31-41, doi:10.59860/td.c053e8c

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Part of the book: The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval

Corin F. V. Corley

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 24

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Abstract.  It is suggested that the text should be divided, or can be divided, at the end of C1 I (= C1 I/5, not I/10), at the end of C1 III/15, and at A 10268 (= E 20530) in C2. The episodic nature of C1, accurately reflected by Roach's division into six branches, has long been recognized. The very fact that the text consists of six separate adventures, or sets of adventures, featuring three different heroes, Gauvain, Caradoc, and Guerrehés, prompts the question of how many authors might be involved.

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