Offers close readings of tournament and rash boon (with historical context) in her analysis of these rituals as sites of fictional play on the part of Chretien.
Explores Lancelot's anonymity throughout half of the romance and its relationship to Chretien's shared authorship first in his courtly relationship to Marie de Champagne and then in his chivalric dynamic with Godfroy.
Argues that Chretien has a duplicitous double voice pinpointing various problematic moments of the text. Claims that Chretien invented the authorial figure of Godefroi; by ending his part of the writing with Lancelot's incarceration, Chretien avoids leaving the story open to endless immoral adulterous encounters.
Krueger attends to all the secondary female characters whom Lancelot encounters and who complicate or obstruct his progress and as well as Geunevere's initial elusive and harsh demanding demeanor, arguing that they problematize female desire in the text.
In this exploration of the meaning of authorship in Chretien's romances, Krueger examines an interesting parallel in Lancelot between Chretien's service to Marie (in his prologue) and Lancelot's courtly service to Guenevere.
Bruckner explores Chretien's relationship to Marie de Champagne and his possible resistanace to the "matter and sense" of courtly love that he claims she imposed on him. Has courtly love elevated or humiliated Lancelot?
Maddox reads the chivalric (heroic) code in Erec and Enide as nascent individualism. Maddox explores the customs (rituals) of Gorre and Logres and how they impact Lancelot's courtly love.
