Formulaic Diction and Thematic Composition in the Chanson de Roland
56 pp., 6 x 9, appends., notes
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-9036-3
Published: January 1961
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Distributed for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
This study shows that the Chanson de Roland is clearly the work of an individual creativity that could, by deliberate repetition of important parts and careful arrangement of the order of events, transcend speech limitations to hint at the complex reaction and subtle character development of the protagonist.