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Book Chapter
The Quest
2006
Overview
1 An analysis of the narrative form and thematic organization of theFuriosomust recognize the central function of the quest (inchiesta). As the foundational theme for a whole genre, the quest is the transformation of the ancient chronotope (to borrow a term from Bakhtin) of theaventure, so familiar to the French medieval romance and inherited by Italian chivalric literature. Already in the Arthurian romances – and even more prominently in Chrétien’s last texts and in the whole cycle of the search for the Grail – theaventureis progressively framed within thequête: ‘The point of departure from which the
