Martorell's Tirant lo Blanch
A Program for Military and Social Reform in Fifteenth-Century Christendom

224 pp., 6 x 9, notes, bibl
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-9229-9
Published: January 1985
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This first critical analysis of the Catalan novel of chivalry, Tirant lo Blanch (1490), elucidates the sophisticated plan that lies behind its composition. By breaking down the 487-chapter story into two fundamental narrative threads--the military and erotic exploits of the hero--Aylward reveals the two-pronged narrative scheme that supports Martorell's fast-paced and amusing account of romance and political intrigue in fifteenth-century Constantinople.