ILLUSORY ENDS IN CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES’ EREC ET ENIDE

Newby, Rebecca (2018) ILLUSORY ENDS IN CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES’ EREC ET ENIDE. Arthurian Literature XXXIV. pp. 1-21.

Abstract

There have been countless attempts to theoriseune mout bele conjointure, the formulation used by Chrétien de Troyes to describe his compositional technique in the prologue toErec et Enide. Yet the term bele conjointure perhaps more accurately defines the ideal result of this distinctively medieval poetic practice: that is, an elegant sequence consisting of skilfully conjoined but diverse elements. Whatever the exact significations of this phrase – and it has long been an issue of contention for Chrétien scholars from Wendelin Foerster and W. A. Nitze to Eugène Vinaver and Douglas Kelly – most agree that it describes the

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