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Author : Denise Ming-yueh Wang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Generic Problems in Middle English Romance written by Denise Ming-yueh Wang and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark C. Amodio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429589522
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry written by Mark C. Amodio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994, Oral Tradition in Middle English is an edited collection providing a multidisciplinary look at the importance and nature of oral tradition in Middle English literature. The book offers a discussion of the gradual problemization of orality and literacy in works of verbal art from this period. It shows how early typographies proved too exclusive to explain the heterogeneity of relevant texts, bringing to bear the new and potentially productive concepts of "vocality" and developing literacy. This book establishes a new interpretive paradigm for Middle English poetry.
Author : S. H. A. Shepherd
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393966077
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Middle English Romances written by S. H. A. Shepherd and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance.
Author : Susan Wittig
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292766556
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances written by Susan Wittig and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical matrix of similar themes and characters. As single narratives, they are thought of as random collections of events loosely structured in chronological succession. Susan Wittig, however, offers evidence that the romances are carefully ordered (although not always consciously so) according to a series of formulaic patterns and that their structures serve as vehicles for certain essential cultural patterns and are important to the preservation of some community-held beliefs. The analysis begins on a stylistic level, and the same theoretical principles applied to the linguistic formulas of the poems also serve as a model for the study of narrative structures. The author finds that there are laws that govern the creation, selection, and arrangement of narrative materials in the romance genre and that act to restrict innovation and control the narrative form. The reasons for this strict control are to be found in the functional relationship of the genre to the culture that produced it. The deep structure of the romance is viewed as a problem-solving pattern that enables the community to mediate important contradictions within its social, economic, and mythic structures. Wittig speculates that these contradictions may lie in the social structures of kinship and marriage and that they have been restructured in the narratives in a “practical” myth: the concept of power gained through the marriage alliance, and the reconciliation of the contradictory notions of marriage for power’s sake and marriage for love’s sake. This advanced, thorough, and completely original study will be valuable to medieval specialists, classicists, linguists, folklorists, and Biblical scholars working in oral-formulaic narrative structure.
Author : Andrew M. Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108913091
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Landscape in Middle English Romance written by Andrew M. Richmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped and were in turn influenced by contemporary perspectives on the natural world. These popular texts also reveal widespread concern regarding the damaging effects of human actions and climate change. The natural world was a constant presence in the writing, thoughts, and lives of the audiences and authors of medieval English romance – and these close readings reveal that our environmental concerns go back further in our history and culture than we think.
Author : Raluca L. Radulescu
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384270X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance written by Raluca L. Radulescu and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the Middle Ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre has defied precise definition, its subject matter ranging from tales of chivalric adventure, to saintly women, and monsters that become human. The essays in this collection provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.
Author : Angela Jane Weisl
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859914604
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Conquering the Reign of Femeny written by Angela Jane Weisl and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 1995 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close study of Chaucer's most important works shows how he used gender issues to extend the range of romance. The paradox of romance as a genre is that it contains multiple possibilities, yet remains profoundly constrained by its own terms and conventions. Through a close reading of several of Chaucer's most important works, Dr Weisl examines Chaucer's use of gender issues to explore and challenge this genre. She argues that Chaucer's complex treatment of the romance, following both continental and Middle English traditions, experiments with and tests romance conventions. Each chapter looks indetail at one or more of Chaucer's works, examining their different approaches to the problems of gender, and showing how this is closely connected with genre. Subjects addressed include the feminised private spaces in Troilus and Criseydewhich protect Criseyde, but are inevitably penetrated by male power; the masculine imperatives of the epic which challenge the limits of the feminised romance in the Knight'sTale(and the speech of its heroine Emelye, who questions the assumptions of the genre itself); Canacee in the Squire's Tale, who rejects the stereotyped role of the heroine, and the romance world in the Tale of SirThopas, without a heroine at all.Dr ANGELA JANE WEISLis visiting assistant professor of English and Women's Studies at Wittenberg University, Ohio.
Author : K.S. Whetter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317004922
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance written by K.S. Whetter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a significant contribution to ongoing critical debates over the definition of romance and the genre and artistry of Malory's Morte Darthur. K.S. Whetter offers an original approach to these issues by prefacing a comprehensive study of romance with a wide-ranging and historically diverse study of genre and genre theory. In doing so Whetter addresses the questions of why and how romance might usefully be defined and how such an awareness of genre-and the expectations that come with such awareness-impact upon both our understanding of the texts themselves and of how they may have been received by their contemporary medieval audiences. As an integral part the study Whetter offers a detailed examination of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, a text usually considered a straightforward romance but which Whetter argues should be re-classified and reconsidered as a generic mixture best termed tragic-romance. This new classification is important in helping to explain a number of so-called inconsistencies or puzzles in Malory's text and further elucidates Malory's artistry. Whetter offers a powerful meditation upon genre, romance and the Morte which will be of interest to faculty, graduate students and undergraduates alike.
Author : Patricia Ingham
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812236009
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Sovereign Fantasies written by Patricia Ingham and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001-06-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Late medieval English Arthurian romance has broad cultural ambitions, offering a fantasy of insular union as an "imagined cimmunity" of British sovereignty. the Arthurian lageneds provided a means to explore England's historical indebtedness to and intimacies with Celtic culture, allowing nobles to repudiate their dynastic ties to France and claim themselves heirs to an insular heritage".
Author : Jamie McKinstry
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844176
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory written by Jamie McKinstry and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the depiction and function of memory in a variety of romances, including Troilus and Criseyde and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Author : A. Florschuetz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137343494
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance written by A. Florschuetz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.
Author : Joanne Adrienne Rice
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Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Middle English Verse Romances written by Joanne Adrienne Rice and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Strohm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019928766X
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Middle English written by Paul Strohm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume energizes issues of research in Middle English studies by eschewing an emphasis on what 'we know' and instead addressing the most challenging areas of unfixed opinion and unsettled debate. Although major authors such as Chaucer and Langland are richly represented, many little-known and neglected texts are considered as well.
Author : Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879721145
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Popularity of Middle English Romance written by Velma Bourgeois Richmond and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle English romance has elicited throughout the centuries a curious mixture of indifference,hostile apprehension, and contempt that perhaps no other literature--except its most likely offspring, modern best-sellers--has provoked.
Author : William Calin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442655259
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England written by William Calin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he French presence in English literary history in the centuries following the Conquest has to some extent been glossed over or treated as an interlude. During this period, roughly 1100-1420, French, like Latin, was the language of the educated; in the courts of England, and for nobles, clerics, and the rising commercial elements, communication was multilingual. In his ground-breaking study, William Calin explores indepth this era of medieval English literature and culture in relation to its distinctly French influences and contemporaries. He examines the Anglo-Norman contribution to medieval literature, concentrating on romance and hagiography; the great continental French texts, such as Prose Lancelot and the Romance of the Rose, which had a dominant role in shaping literature in English; and the English response to the French cultural world - the two 'modes' in English where the French presence was most significant: court poetry (Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve) and Middle English romance. This book is grounded in French sources both well-known and relatively obscure. Translations of the Old French makeThe French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England accessible to scholars and students of Medieval English, comparatists, and historians, as well as those proficient in French. Calin develops a synthesis of medieval French and English literature that will be especially useful for classroom study.
Author : Murray James Evans
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773512375
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Rereading Middle English Romance written by Murray James Evans and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on features of layout and decoration in manuscripts containing Middle English romances, Murray Evans discusses how these details signal generic and structural relationships among texts. Using a computer-assisted survey to tabulate and quantify features of decoration and presentation in fifteen manuscript collections, including the "Auchinleck" MS and Cambridge University Library MS Ff.2.38, he demonstrates that romances are decorated more generously than other kinds of texts.
Author : 田尻雅士
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Studies in the Middle England Didactic Tail-rhyme Romances written by 田尻雅士 and published by . This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
