Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner provides the first book-length examination of all four verse continuations that follow Chrtien's unfinished Grail story, a powerful site of rewriting from the late twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. By focusing on the dialogue between Chrtien and the verse toon meer continuators, this study demonstrates how the patterns and puzzles inscribed in the first author's romance continue to guide his successors, whose additions and reinventions throw new light back on the problems medieval readers and writers found in the mother text: questions about society and the individual; love, gender relations, and family ties; chivalry, violence, and religion; issues of collective authorship and doubled heroes, interpretation, rewriting, and canon formation. Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner is Professor of French at Boston College. toon minder