Cliges

Download or read book Cliges written by De Troyes active 12th century Chrétien and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cligès" is a poem by the famed medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. It is the second of his five Arthurian romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice. Cligès has come down to us through seven manuscripts and various fragments. The poem is arranged in rhymed couplets. Prose versions also exist since at least the 15th century. There are many stylistic techniques that set Chrétien de Troyes and his work Cligès apart from his contemporaries and their work. Chrétien used many Latin writing techniques such as nature topos, portraiture, conjointure, amplificato and interpretation to convey a realistic romance story.