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Author : David Blamires
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719012921
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Herzog Ernst and the Otherworld Voyage written by David Blamires and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615659
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Imaginary and Mythical Places written by Theresa Bane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heavens and hells of the world’s religions and the “far, far away” legends cannot be seen or visited, but they remain an integral part of culture and history. This encyclopedia catalogs more than 800 imaginary and mythological lands from all over the world, including fairy realms, settings from Arthurian lore, and kingdoms found in fairy tales and political and philosophical works, including Sir Thomas More’s Utopia and Plato’s Atlantis. From al A’raf, the limbo of Islam, to Zulal, one of the many streams that run through Paradise, entries give the literary origin of each site, explain its cultural context, and describe its topical features, listing variations on names when applicable. Cross-referenced for ease of use, this compendium will prove useful to scholars, researchers or anyone wishing to tour the unseen landscapes of myth and legend.
Author : Sally Burch North
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600028707
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Studies in Medieval French Language and Literature written by Sally Burch North and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1988 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hanjo Berressem
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364390228X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Between Science and Fiction written by Hanjo Berressem and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that the Earth is hollow has inspired both the world of science and the world of fiction. As a scientific concept, this notion has informed the works of Edmond Halley and Leonhard Euler. As a literary conceit, it can be found in the works of Dante and E.A. Poe; in novels by Jules Verne, Arno Schmidt, Thomas Pynchon, and Mark Z. Danielewski; and in comics, films, and computer games. This collection addresses both the scientific and the aesthetic aspects of the "Hollow Earth," with essays that range from medieval literature to afrofuturism. (Series: n-1 | work - science - medium - Vol. 5)
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000205029
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World written by Albrecht Classen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, predicated their works on the notion of the trail and elaborated on its epistemological function. We can grasp here an essential concept that determines much of medieval and early modern European literature and philosophy, addressing the direction which all protagonists pursue, as powerfully illustrated also by the anonymous poets of Herzog Ernst and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Dante’s Divina Commedia, in fact, proves to be one of the most explicit poetic manifestations of the fundamental idea of the trail, but we find strong parallels also in powerful contemporary works such as Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de la vie humaine and in many mystical tracts.
Author : Gustaf E. Karsten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology written by Gustaf E. Karsten and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311069378X
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.
Author : Brigitte Buettner
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271093692
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Mineral and the Visual written by Brigitte Buettner and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opulent jeweled objects ranked among the most highly valued works of art in the European Middle Ages. At the same time, precious stones prompted sophisticated reflections on the power of nature and the experience of mineralized beings. Beyond a visual regime that put a premium on brilliant materiality, how can we account for the ubiquity of gems in medieval thought? In The Mineral and the Visual, art historian Brigitte Buettner examines the social roles, cultural meanings, and active agency of precious stones in secular medieval art. Exploring the layered roles played by gems in aesthetic, ideological, intellectual, and economic practices, Buettner focuses on three significant categories of art: the jeweled crown, the pictorialized lapidary, and the illustrated travel account. The global gem trade brought coveted jewels from the Indies to goldsmiths’ workshops in Paris, fashionable bodies in London, and the crowns of kings across Europe, and Buettner shows that Europe’s literal and metaphorical enrichment was predicated on the importation of gems and ideas from Byzantium, the Islamic world, Persia, and India. Original, transhistorical, and cross-disciplinary, The Mineral and the Visual engages important methodological questions about the work of culture in its material dimension. It will be especially useful to scholars and students interested in medieval art history, material culture, and medieval history.
Author : Bart Besamusca
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859915465
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein written by Bart Besamusca and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New editor, new directions: the series broadens its scope to encompass European literatures other than French and English; still, however, "an indispensable component of any historical or Arthurian library". NOTES AND QUERIES This new volume of Arthurian Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted to the Roman van Walewein(The Romance of Walewein [Gawain]) by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an undisputed gem of Middle Dutch literature which has recently become accessible to an English-speaking audience through translation. Essentially a fairy-tale written into Arthurian romance, it presents a Gawain quite different to the man found in the English Sir Gawain and the Green Knightor the French Gauvain. Expert readings of the Walewein, especially commissioned and collected by BART BESAMUSCA and ERIK KOOPERof the University of Utrecht are provided by a group of renowned scholars, contributing to the on-going critical appraisal of the Walewein. KEITH BUSBY is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissane Studies, University of Oklahoma. Contributors: BART BESAMUSCA, ERIK KOOPER, WALTER HAUG, DOUGLAS KELLY, NORRIS J. LACY, MATHIAS MEYER, AD PUTTER, FELICITY RIDDY, THEA SUMMERFIELD, JANE H.M. TAYLOR, BART VELDHOEN, NORBERT VOORWINDEN, LORI WALTERS
Author : David M. Bain
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719012969
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Masters, Servants, and Orders in Greek Tragedy written by David M. Bain and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. S. Shaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521245784
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Comparative Criticism: Volume 4, The Language of the Arts written by E. S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-11-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses literary theory and criticism, comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Author : Trevor J. Quinn
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719012976
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Athens and Samos, Lesbos, and Chios, 478-404 B.C. written by Trevor J. Quinn and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816630547
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Anne's Bohemia written by Alfred Thomas and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten chapters examine aspects of medieval Czech literature, with particular emphasis on women readers and subjects and the influence of the church. Individual manuscripts examined include The Dalimil Chronicle , The Ointment Seller , The Legend of Saint Procopius , The Life of St Catherine , The New Council and The Weaver, The Wycliffite Woman and The Dispute between Prague and Kutná Hora .
Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137542608
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe written by Alfred Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing.
Author : Peter Davidson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861895631
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book The Idea of North written by Peter Davidson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a compass might tell us which direction we are going, there is really only one direction to which it ever points: north. North is the ultimate point of orientation, but it is also a celebrated destination for the adventurous, the curious, the solitary, and the foolhardy. In this fascinating book—updated in this accessible, pocket edition—Peter Davidson explores the concept of “north” through its many manifestations in painting, legend, and literature. Arctic bound, Davidson takes the reader on a journey from the heart of society to the most far-flung outposts of human geography, packing in our rucksacks a treasure trove of stories and artworks, from the Icelandic Sagas to Nabokov’s snowy kingdom of Zembla, from Hans Christian Andersen’s forbidding Snow Queen to the works of artists such as Eric Ravilious, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Andy Goldsworthy. He celebrates the different ways our artists and writers have illuminated our relationship with the earth’s most dangerous and austere terrain. Through Davidson’s astonishing but inviting erudition, we ultimately come to see north as a permanent goal, frozen forever on a horizon we never seem to quite reach.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498539858
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Water in Medieval Literature written by Albrecht Classen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocritical thinking has sensitized us more than ever before to the tremendous importance of water for human life, as it is richly reflected in the world of literature. The great relevance of water also in the Middle Ages might come as a surprise for many readers, but the evidence assembled here confirms that also medieval poets were keenly aware of the importance of water to sustain all life, to provide understanding of life’s secrets, to mirror love, and to connect the individual with God. In eleven chapters major medieval European authors and their works are discussed here, taking us from the world of Old Norse to Irish and Latin literature, to German, French, English, and Italian romances and other narratives.
Author : Ben Waggoner
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1941136176
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Sagas of Imagination: A Medieval Icelandic Reader written by Ben Waggoner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norse men and women who sailed to Iceland brought stories with them-stories of their lives and their ancestors, passed down for centuries, going back in time to great Vikings, legendary heroes, and even the ancient gods and goddesses. A new wave of stories entered with Christianity-stories of exotic lands and beasts, of saints and holy men facing demons and monsters. A third wave of stories came to Iceland via Norway, whose king had commissioned translations of tales of chivalry-of the courtly love of gallant knights and beautiful ladies. And all of these blended together in Iceland, creating swashbuckling sagas unlike any other medieval literature. This book presents eleven sagas and six shorter texts tracing the growth of these sagas of adventure, from Norse legends of King Half and Asmund Champion's Bane, to the life of the Apostle Bartholomew, to tales of Parceval and King Arthur, to the sagas of heroes like Vilmund the Outsider and Yngvar the Far-Traveler and Samson the Fair.
