Table of Contents

Introduction
Duty to the Geste: The Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange
Metaphor, Metonymy and Morality: The Vulgate Cycle
Responsibility to Reputation: The Prose Tristan
Ethical Evil: The Roman de Renart
Conclusion

Reviews

Arguing for telling linkages between medieval text and modern theory, Sunderland's work affirms that in cycles, as in the investigation of cyclic texts by means of recent critical theory, what came before can be understood by means of what has developed later, which in turn may find an apt expression of itself in what came before.
*ARTHURIANA*

[This] insightful analysis ofthe narrative and formal issues at stake ... opens new routes in the exploration and understanding of the complex nature of medieval textuality.
*MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW*

[An] insightful analysis of the narrative and formal issues at stake in these four Old French cycles [...] opens new routes in the exploration and understanding of the complex nature of medieval textuality.
*MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW*

A useful contribution to the current scholarship on medieval books and textual transmission.
*SPECULUM*