The Author: Educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Oxford, Andrea Williams has been a lecturer in the French Department at Exeter University since 1992, specialising in Medieval Literature and the re-working of medieval themes in the contemporary French novel. She has published articles on La Queste del Saint Graal in French Studies and Reading Medieval Studies, and is currently working on the Perlesvaus, as well as the translation of Arthurian Romances from Old French into English.

• Contents: Introduction to the text – Detailed analysis of the structure of the narrative – How repeated patterns of metaphor create a hierarchy of characters – Metonymic and metaphoric modes of narrative – The author’s didactic purpose – The role of the reader.

The Author: Educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Oxford, Andrea Williams has been a lecturer in the French Department at Exeter University since 1992, specialising in Medieval Literature and the re-working of medieval themes in the contemporary French novel. She has published articles on La Queste del Saint Graal in French Studies and Reading Medieval Studies, and is currently working on the Perlesvaus, as well as the translation of Arthurian Romances from Old French into English.

• Contents: Introduction to the text – Detailed analysis of the structure of the narrative – How repeated patterns of metaphor create a hierarchy of characters – Metonymic and metaphoric modes of narrative – The author’s didactic purpose – The role of the reader.