Chapter 3: The Structure and Unity of C2

Corin F. V. Corley

From The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval: A Critical and Lexicographical Study (1987), pp. 42-55, doi:10.59860/td.c16326f

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

Corin F. V. Corley

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Abstract.  Having established that C2 can be divided into C2i and C2ii, with episodes 6-8 interpolated, we now study the structure and unity of the text, where the structure applies to the whole, but the unity, necessarily, applies only to episodes 9-35 (C2ii). We consider in effect whether, beyond the C2i/C2ii division, the text is a homogeneous unit, or the work of two or more authors, remanieurs, etc.

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