Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- JOURNALS AND SERIALS -- COLLECTIVE VOLUMES -- INTRODUCTION Identity and encounter in medieval literature -- CONTEXTUALIZING THE ENCOUNTER: THE LIFE OF SAINT EUSTACE -- MOTIF AND SCHEMA -- BASIC FEATURES OF THE SPECULAR ENCOUNTER -- THE QUESTION OF REFLEXIVITY -- OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY -- 1 The specular encounter in fictions of reciprocity: the Lais of Marie de France -- THE SPECULAR ENCOUNTER IN GUIGEMAR -- MEDIATORY COMMUNICATION: LAUSTIC AND CHIEVREFOIL -- MEDIATION BY COUNSEL: DEUS AMANZ, EQUITAN, BISCLAVRET, AND CHAITIVEL -- MEDIATORY JUDGMENT: LANVAL -- MEDIATORY DISCLOSURES OF IDENTITY: YONEC, MILUN, LE FRESNE, AND ELIDUC -- NARRATIVE ORGANIZATION AND RECIPROCITY IN THE LAIS -- TRIADIC NARRATIVE AND SPECULAR ENCOUNTER -- RECIPROCITY AND TRANSTEXTUAL DESIGN -- 2 The specular encounter in Arthurian romance -- CHRETIEN DE TROYES: SPECULARITY AND CRISIS -- SPECULAR ENCOUNTERS IN LE BEL INCONNU -- SPECULAR ENCOUNTERS IN THE PROSE LANCELOT -- Chastoiement and Enfances -- Fictions of the father -- The name of the father -- Tombs -- Self-reflexivity and the relativization of heroic status -- Specular encounters in the love intrigue -- The specular encounter and cyclic organization -- 3 From encounter to specular encounter in fictions of the courtly tryst -- THE MORNING AFTER IN LE CHEVALIER DE LA CHARRETE -- FLAGRANT DELIGHTS IN BEROUL'S TRISTAN -- FROM AFTERMATH TO TRYST IN THE OXFORD FOLIE TRISTAN -- SECRET SHARERS IN LA CHASTELAINE DE VERGI -- THE ANALYTIC SPECULAR ENCOUNTER IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE TRYST -- 4 The specular encounter in fictions of lineage -- THE SPECULAR ENCOUNTER IN LA FILLE DU COMTE DE PONTIEU -- SPECULAR ENCOUNTERS IN JEAN D'ARRAS'S ROMAN DE MELUSINE -- THE IDENTITARY SPECULAR ENCOUNTER -- FAMILY ROMANCE.

"IN YOU, MORE THAN YOU" -- AFTERWORD The specular encounter in perspective -- REVELATIONS -- RECOGNITIONS -- Appendix -- ANALYSIS OF TRIADIC STRUCTURE IN THE LAIS OF MARIE DE FRANCE -- Guigemar -- Equitan -- Le Fresne -- Bisclavret -- Lanval -- Deus Amanz -- Yonec -- Laüstic -- Milun -- Chaitivel -- Chievrefoil -- Eliduc -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE SPECULAR ENCOUNTER IN FICTIONS OF RECIPROCITY: THE LAIS OF MARIE DE FRANCE -- 2 THE SPECULAR ENCOUNTER IN ARTHURIAN ROMANCE -- 3 FROM ENCOUNTER TO SPECULAR ENCOUNTER IN FICTIONS OF THE COURTLY TRYST -- 4 THE SPECULAR ENCOUNTER IN FICTIONS OF LINEAGE -- AFTERWORD -- Select bibliography -- PRIMARY LITERATURE -- SECONDARY LITERATURE -- Index.