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Book Synopsis The English Romance in Time by : Helen Cooper
Download or read book The English Romance in Time written by Helen Cooper and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Romance in Time is a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century down to the early seventeenth. This is a continuous story, since the same romances that constituted the largest and most sophisticated body of secular fiction in the Middle Ages went on to enjoy a new and vibrant popularity at all social levels in black-letter prints as the pulp fiction of the Tudor age. This embedded culture was reworked for political and Reformation propaganda and for the 'writing of England', as well as providing a generous reservoir of good stories and dramatic plots. The different ways in which the same texts were read over several centuries, or the same motifs shifted meaning as understanding and usage altered, provide a revealing and sensitive measure of historical and cultural change. The book accordingly looks at those processes of change as well as at how the motifs themselves work, to offer a historical semantics of the language of romance conventions. It also looks at how politics and romance intersect - the point where romance comes true. The historicizing of the study of literature is belatedly leading to a wider recognition that the early modern world is built on medieval foundations. This book explores both the foundations and the building. Similarly, generic theory, which previously tended to operate on transhistorical assumptions, is now acknowledging that genre interacts crucially with cultural context - with changing audiences and ideologies and means of dissemination. The generation into which Spenser and Shakespeare were born was the last to be brought up on a wide range of medieval romances in their original forms, and they could therefore exploit their generic codings in new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences. Romance may since then have lost much of its cultural centrality, but the universal appeal of these same stories has continued to fuel later works from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to C.S. Lewis and Tolkien.
Book Synopsis Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance by : Kevin Sean Whetter
Download or read book Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance written by Kevin Sean Whetter and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 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 addresses the questions of how exactly romance might be defined and how such an awareness of genre impacts upon both the understanding and reception of the texts in question.
Author :Fellow and Tutor in English Helen Cooper Publisher :Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 13 :0199248869 Total Pages :559 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (992 download)
Book Synopsis The English Romance in Time by : Fellow and Tutor in English Helen Cooper
Download or read book The English Romance in Time written by Fellow and Tutor in English Helen Cooper and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great story motifs of romance were transmitted directly from the Middle Ages to the age of print in an abundance of editions. Spenser and Shakespeare assumed a familiarity with them and therefore exploited it, with new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences
Book Synopsis Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance by : Corinne J. Saunders
Download or read book Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance written by Corinne J. Saunders and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study looks at a wide range of medieval Englisih romance texts, including the works of Chaucer and Malory, from a broad cultural perspective, to show that while they employ magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds, they are also grounded in a sense of possibility, and reflect a complex web of inherited and current ideas." --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance by : Trisha Telep
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance written by Trisha Telep and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time travel romance is not the same thing as sci-fi romance, though some stories may be set in an imagined future; it is romantic fiction set in various different eras, usually from around the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A woman may fall asleep in Central Park in the present to wake up in the arms of a Scottish laird in the sixteenth century. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance contains 25 stories of adventure and love; settings include medieval Scotland, sixteenth-century England, the nineteenth-century 'Wild West'. Some stories are set in the present and a few in the future. Stories include an Elizabethan nobleman whisked into the present day, a troubled young woman who lands in the sixteenth century able to break a curse of lost love. Includes stories from: Nina Bangs, Jude Deveraux, Sandra Hill, Linda Howard, Lynn Kurland, Karen Marie Moning, and many more.
Book Synopsis Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) by : Gabriel García Márquez
Download or read book Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
Book Synopsis Landscape in Middle English Romance by : Andrew M. Richmond
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.
Book Synopsis No Time For Romance by : Lucilla Andrews
Download or read book No Time For Romance written by Lucilla Andrews and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucilla Andrews was only eighteen when, as a volunteer nurse at the beginning of the second world war, she experienced the grim realities of wartime . Young, inexperienced and coming from a comfortable and sheltered background, she found herself dealing with survivors from Dunkirk and the victims of the blitz. Seeing these horrors at first hand had a profound and lasting effect upon her, and made her determined to train as a Nurse at St Thomas's Hospital. No Time For Romance is her story, the powerful and moving account of a young girl in wartime London, learning the hard way about medicine, injuries and death, as well as love and hope. It is a story both of personal courage and of the courage of the British people at war.
Book Synopsis Right Romance by : Emily Griffiths Jones
Download or read book Right Romance written by Emily Griffiths Jones and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Emily Griffiths Jones examines the intersections of romance, religion, and politics in England between 1588 and 1688 to show how writers during this politically turbulent time used the genre of romance to construct diverse ideological communities for themselves. Right Romance argues for a recontextualized understanding of romance as a multigeneric narrative structure or strategy rather than a prose genre and rejects the common assumption that romance was a short-lived mode most commonly associated with royalist politics. Puritan republicans likewise found in romance strength, solace, and grounds for political resistance. Two key works that profoundly influenced seventeenth-century approaches to romance are Philip Sidney’s New Arcadia and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, which grappled with romance’s civic potential and its limits for a newly Protestant state. Jones examines how these works influenced writings by royalists and republicans during and after the English Civil War. Remaining chapters pair writers from both sides of the war in order to illuminate the ongoing ideological struggles over romance. John Milton is analyzed alongside Margaret Cavendish and Percy Herbert, and Lucy Hutchinson alongside John Dryden. In the final chapter, Jones studies texts by John Bunyan and Aphra Behn that are known for their resistance to generic categorization in an attempt to rethink romance’s relationship to election, community, gender, and generic form. Original and persuasive, Right Romance advances theoretical discussion about romance, pushing beyond the limits of the genre to discover its impact on constructions of national, communal, and personal identity.
Book Synopsis Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory by : Jamie McKinstry
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.
Book Synopsis Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance by : Jan Shaw
Download or read book Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance written by Jan Shaw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a much-needed consideration of Melusine within medieval and contemporary theories of space, memory, and gender. The Middle English Melusine offers a particularly rich source for such a study, as it presents the story of a powerful fairy/human woman who desires a full human life—and death—within a literary tradition that is more friendly to women’s agency than its continental counterparts. After establishing a “textual habitus of wonder,” Jan Shaw explores the tale in relation to a range of Middle English traditions including love and marriage, the spatial practices of women, the operation of individual and collective memory, and the legacies of patrimony. Melusine emerges as a complex figure, representing a multifaceted feminine subject that furthers our understanding of Middle English women’s sense of self in the world.
Book Synopsis Passage Through Time by : William Newell
Download or read book Passage Through Time written by William Newell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Love Rekindled, A Can't Miss Read Sure To Fill Your Heart With Laughter, Mystery and Adventure "I contribute plenty! Is it my fault you never listen to me?" Katie and John Duncan are enjoying, well - attempting to enjoy a quiet, long week in Edinburgh, Scotland together. During a day tour to Glasgow, they visit a medieval museum on a whim - something Katie is not so excited about. As John falls in love with the medieval displays, Katie can't help but notice a strange, squirmy little man seemingly following her. "Can I help you?" The squirmish man - startled, looks up at Katie. "I am Dr. Oscar Wellesley." He introduces himself and invites both Katie and John into a vault in the basement, to pick out a love story which describes two ancient Picts - a startling resemblance in looks to both Katie and John. They were involved in fighting off the Romans and, according to the story, were key to the withdrawal of the Romans from Southern Scotland. "What the hell." As the two are shocked by what they read in the book, they find themselves losing grip on reality. As they come back to consciousness, there is no museum, no vault - just mud, grass and an ancient battlefield. During this time and era, Katie and John discover their true past and begin to realize who they are and what they have become. What happens to Katie and John as they make their way through time? Will they ever make it back to present day? Do they find the love which had once bonded the two together? Find out in this heartwarming Scottish Historical Time Travel Romance.
Book Synopsis Performance and the Middle English Romance by : Linda Marie Zaerr
Download or read book Performance and the Middle English Romance written by Linda Marie Zaerr and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.
Book Synopsis Medieval English Romance in Context by : Gail Ashton
Download or read book Medieval English Romance in Context written by Gail Ashton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured in three parts, this book focuses on immediate contexts, key texts, and wider contexts enabling development from background issues through the actual literary texts to criticism and afterlives.
Book Synopsis Time Enough for Love by : Robert A. Heinlein
Download or read book Time Enough for Love written by Robert A. Heinlein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-08-15 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capstone and crowning achievement of the Future History series, from the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction... Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.
Download or read book The City of Love written by Paige Elwood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torn from her own time, taken from her modern life, a woman must decide to stake it all on love when she learns that the past might also be her future. A magical, light-hearted, melt-your-heart kind of romance for fans of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, Hazel Hunter's Immortal Highlander, as well as Sariah Wilson's Once Upon a Time Travel... Sophie's world turns upside down when she awakens in the shadow of the Gothic cathedral Notre Dame of medieval Paris. Finding eternal love hasn't worked out for Sophie, too many men breaking too many promises. She's resigned herself to a life without the trust and lasting love of the right man. Edouard's aristocratic, new adult playboy ways came to a crashing halt when cursed with mysterious and powerful magic. Now he searches through time, desperate to find the only way to free him from the curse-his one true love. But keeping his past from Sophie may just keep him from his freedom. And stop them both from realizing their eternal love. Sophie wonders if she is truly deserving of unconditional love, and if she does find it, will she find the price too high? The City of Love is the first book in the Eternity Rings series. If you love a dynamic, complex hero, a heroine with enduring hope and courageous strength, and mystical worlds, then this is the historical romance series for you. Readers who enjoy clean and wholesome content around magical and fun-loving themes will love this book. Pick up a copy today and join the international realm of the Eternity Series.
Book Synopsis Thinking Medieval Romance by : Katherine C. Little
Download or read book Thinking Medieval Romance written by Katherine C. Little and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an idealized fantasy of chivalry and hierarchy, and also for our understanding of romances, as always already archaic, part of a half-forgotten past. And yet, romances were one of the most influential and long-lasting innovations of the medieval period. To emphasize their novelty is to see the resources medieval people had for thinking about their contemporary concern and controversies, whether social order, Jewish/ Christian relations, the Crusades, the connectivity of the Mediterranean, women's roles as mothers, and how to write a national past. This volume takes up the challenge to 'think romance', investigating the various ways that romances imagine, reflect, and describe the challenges of the medieval world.
