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Palimpsests And The Literary Imagination Of Medieval England
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Book Synopsis Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England by : Tatjana Silec
Download or read book Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England written by Tatjana Silec and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England.
Book Synopsis Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England by : Tatjana Silec
Download or read book Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England written by Tatjana Silec and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England.
Book Synopsis Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance by : Amy Burge
Download or read book Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance written by Amy Burge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.
Book Synopsis The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature by : R. Waugh
Download or read book The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature written by R. Waugh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others.
Book Synopsis Consolation in Medieval Narrative by : C. Schrock
Download or read book Consolation in Medieval Narrative written by C. Schrock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The first of its kind, this study traces this widely used narrative tradition to Augustine's two great histories: Confessions and City of God .
Book Synopsis The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature by : J. Rider
Download or read book The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature written by J. Rider and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters.
Book Synopsis Women in Old Norse Literature by : J. Friðriksdóttir
Download or read book Women in Old Norse Literature written by J. Friðriksdóttir and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested values of the period, revealing the anxieties of both the authors and audiences.
Download or read book The Gnostic Paradigm written by N. Elias and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis and ultimately shedding light on a previously overlooked religious dimension.
Book Synopsis Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist by : M. Toswell
Download or read book Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist written by M. Toswell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry.
Book Synopsis Writing Medieval Women’s Lives by : C. Goldy
Download or read book Writing Medieval Women’s Lives written by C. Goldy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religious boundaries, engaging directly with how the medieval women's experience wa reconstructed, as well as what the experience was.
Download or read book The King’s Bishops written by E. Crosby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.
Book Synopsis The Footprints of Michael the Archangel by : J. Arnold
Download or read book The Footprints of Michael the Archangel written by J. Arnold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the formation and diffusion of the cult of Saint Michael from c. 300-c.800.
Download or read book The Medieval Python written by R. Yeager and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced contemporary understanding of the period generally, and Middle English letters in particular. Both in film of all types - full-feature comedy (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) as well as educational television series for BBC, the History Channel, etc. (e.g., Medieval Lives) - and in his published scholarship (e.g., Chaucer's Knight, in original and revised editions, Who Murdered Chaucer?), Jones has applied his unique combination of carefully researched scholarship, keen intelligence, fearless skepticism of establishment thinking, and his broad good humor to challenge, enlighten and reform. No one working today in either Middle English studies or in period-related film and/or documentary can proceed untouched by Jones' purposive, provocative views. Jones, perhaps more than any other medievalist, can be said to be an integral part of what Palgrave deems the "common dialogue."
Book Synopsis Perilous Passages by : Julie Chappell
Download or read book Perilous Passages written by Julie Chappell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of the transmission of texts from the medieval past to the present.
Book Synopsis Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio’s Decameron by : V. Ferme
Download or read book Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio’s Decameron written by V. Ferme and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and trickery surrounding gender and death in Boccaccio's world and culture.
Download or read book The Disney Middle Ages written by T. Pugh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasingly Eastern) imagination. The essayists of The Disney Middle Ages explore Disney's mediation and re-creation of a fairy-tale and fantasy past, not to lament its exploitation of the middle ages for corporate ends, but to examine how and why these medieval visions prove so readily adaptable to themed entertainments many centuries after their creation. What results is a scrupulous and comprehensive examination of the intersection between the products of the Disney Corporation and popular culture's fascination with the middle ages.
Book Synopsis Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages by : E. Upton
Download or read book Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages written by E. Upton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.