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Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance

Author : K.S. Whetter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317004922
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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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.

Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts

Author : Michael Staveley Cichon
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843842602
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts written by Michael Staveley Cichon and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the medieval period and explore some of their medieval contexts, deepening our understanding not only of the romances concerned but also of the specific medieval contexts that produced or influenced them. The contexts explored here include traditional literary features such as genre and rhetorical technique and literary-cultural questions of authorship, transmission and readership; but they also extend to such broader intellectual and social contexts as medieval understandings of geography, the physiology of swooning, or the efficacy of baptism. A framing context for the volume is provided by Derek Pearsall's prefatory essay, in which he revisits his seminal 1965 article on the development of Middle English romance. Rhiannon Purdie is Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews; Michael Cichon is Associate Professor of English at St Thomas More College in the University of Saskatchewan. Contributors: Derek Pearsall, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Michael Cichon, Nicholas Perkins, Marianne Ailes, John A. Geck, Phillipa Hardman, Siobhain Bly Calkin, Judith Weiss, Robert Rouse, Yin Liu, Emily Wingfield, Rosalind Field

The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance

Author : Ad Putter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317885562
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance written by Ad Putter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle English popular romances enjoyed a wide appeal in later medieval Britain, and even today students of medieval literature will encounter examples of the genre, such as Sir Orfeo, Sir Tristrem, and Sir Launfal. This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays is designed to meet the need for a stimulating guide to the genre. Each essay introduces one popular romance, setting it in its literary and historical contexts, and develops an original interpretation that reveals the possibilities that popular romances offer for modern literary criticism. A substantial introduction by the editors discusses the production and transmission of popular romances in the Middle Ages, and considers the modern reception of popular romance and the interpretative challenges offered by new theoretical approaches. Accessible to advanced students of English, this book is also of interest to those working in the field of medieval studies, comparative literature, and popular culture.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521556873
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (568 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by : Roberta L. Krueger

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance written by Roberta L. Krueger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.

A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance

Author : Raluca L. Radulescu
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384270X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance by : Raluca L. Radulescu

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.

Writing the Other

Author : Nisi Shawl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933500003
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing the Other written by Nisi Shawl and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many writers avoid creating characters of different ethnic backgrounds than their own out of fear that they might get it wrong. To address this fear, Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward collaborated to develop a workshop that addresses these problems with the aim of both increasing writers skill and sensitivity in portraying difference in their fiction as well as allaying their anxieties about getting it wrong. Writing the Other: A Practical Approach is the manual that grew out of their workshop. It discusses basic aspects of characterization and offers elementary techniques, practical exercises, and examples for helping writers create richer and more accurate characters with differences.

Empire of Magic

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231125260
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Magic written by Geraldine Heng and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned. Drawing on feminist and gender theory, as well as cultural analyses of race, class, and colonialism, this provocative book revises our understanding of the beginnings of the nine hundred-year-old cultural genre we call romance, as well as the King Arthur legend. Geraldine Heng argues that romance arose in the twelfth century as a cultural response to the trauma and horror of taboo acts--in particular the cannibalism committed by crusaders on the bodies of Muslim enemies in Syria during the First Crusade. From such encounters with the East, Heng suggests, sprang the fantastical episodes featuring King Arthur in Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle The History of the Kings of England, a work where history and fantasy collide and merge, each into the other, inventing crucial new examples and models for romances to come. After locating the rise of romance and Arthurian legend in the contact zones of East and West, Heng demonstrates the adaptability of romance and its key role in the genesis of an English national identity. Discussing Jews, women, children, and sexuality in works like the romance of Richard Lionheart, stories of the saintly Constance, Arthurian chivralic literature, the legend of Prester John, and travel narratives, Heng shows how fantasy enabled audiences to work through issues of communal identity, race, color, class and alternative sexualities in socially sanctioned and safe modes of cultural discussion in which pleasure, not anxiety, was paramount. Romance also engaged with the threat of modernity in the late medieval period, as economic, social, and technological transformations occurred and awareness grew of a vastly enlarged world beyond Europe, one encompassing India, China, and Africa. Finally, Heng posits, romance locates England and Europe within an empire of magic and knowledge that surveys the world and makes it intelligible--usable--for the future. Empire of Magic is expansive in scope, spanning the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, and detailed in coverage, examining various types of romance--historical, national, popular, chivalric, family, and travel romances, among others--to see how cultural fantasy responds to changing crises, pressures, and demands in a number of different ways. Boldly controversial, theoretically sophisticated, and historically rooted, Empire of Magic is a dramatic restaging of the role romance played in the culture of a period and world in ways that suggest how cultural fantasy still functions for us today.

Thinking Medieval Romance

Author : Katherine C. Little
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198795149
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Medieval Romance written by Katherine C. Little and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretically savvy and polemical arguments about a broad range of French, Middle English, and Mediterranean romances, that will revise scholars' and students' understanding of what medieval romances are and, more importantly, what they do to and for their readers.

Language and History in the Early Germanic World

Author : D. H. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521794237
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (942 download)

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Book Synopsis Language and History in the Early Germanic World by : D. H. Green

Download or read book Language and History in the Early Germanic World written by D. H. Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents linguistic evidence for many aspects of pre-Christian and early medieval European culture.

Romance

Author : Barbara Fuchs
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 041521260X
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Romance written by Barbara Fuchs and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Often derided as an inferior form of literature, "romance" as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike." "Romance is a clear and wide-ranging introduction for students of literary history, comparative literature and modern literary forms. It is also a convincing case for a literary concept too often set to one side."--BOOK JACKET.

Nine Medieval Romances of Magic

Author : Marijane Osborn
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551119978
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Nine Medieval Romances of Magic written by Marijane Osborn and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic: shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor. Many of the tales also feature powerful women characters, while others include representations of “Saracens.” The tales address issues of enduring interest and concern, and also address sexuality, agency, and identity formation in unexpected ways.

Medieval Romance

Author : James F. Knapp
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487501919
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Romance written by James F. Knapp and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Romance is the first study to focus on the deep philosophical underpinnings of the genre's fictional worlds

Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance

Author : Jane Bliss
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843841592
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance written by Jane Bliss and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance.

The Exploitations of Medieval Romance

Author : Laura Ashe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843842122
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis The Exploitations of Medieval Romance by : Laura Ashe

Download or read book The Exploitations of Medieval Romance written by Laura Ashe and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe

A Dictionary of Medieval Romance and Romance Writers

Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497877665
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (776 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Medieval Romance and Romance Writers written by Lewis Spence and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.

Amis and Amiloun

Author : MacEdward Leach
Publisher : Early English Text Society
ISBN 13 : 9780859919371
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Amis and Amiloun written by MacEdward Leach and published by Early English Text Society. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance

Author : Amy Noelle Vines
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843842750
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance by : Amy Noelle Vines

Download or read book Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance written by Amy Noelle Vines and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.