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Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances

Author : Murray McGillivray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429576404
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances written by Murray McGillivray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances tackles the long-standing issue of the role of memorization in the transmission of Middle English romances. The book addresses the lack of consensus on the issue, despite extensive discussion, putting forth the theory that the heterogeneity of the poems of this period, grouped under the general heading of ‘medieval romance’, makes generalizations about the history of transmissions unreliable. The book suggests that oral-formulaic theory has been applied over-literally to oral or oral derived works, through the assumption that all poems answer the same structural criteria. The book also looks at the aspects of orality and performance theory alongside the textuality and intertextuality of these medieval texts.

Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances

Author : MURRAY. MCGILLIVRAY
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367189921
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances written by MURRAY. MCGILLIVRAY and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances tackles the long-standing issue of the role of memorization in the transmission of Middle English romances. The book addresses the lack of consensus on the issue, despite extensive discussion, putting forth the theory that the heterogeneity of the poems of this period, grouped under the general heading of 'medieval romance', makes generalizations about the history of transmissions unreliable. The book suggests that oral-formulaic theory has been applied over-literally to oral or oral derived works, through the assumption that all poems answer the same structural criteria. The book also looks at the aspects of orality and performance theory alongside the textuality and intertextuality of these medieval texts.

The Transmission of Medieval Romance

Author : Ad Putter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845105
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Transmission of Medieval Romance written by Ad Putter and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romances were immensely popular with medieval readers, as evidenced by their ubiquity in manuscripts and early print. The essays collected here deal with the textual transmission of medieval romances in England and Scotland, combining this with investigations into their metre and form; this comparison of the romances in both their material form and their verse form sheds new light on their cultural and social contexts. Topics addressed include the singing of Middle English romance; the printed transmission of romance from Caxton to Wynkyn de Worde; and the representation of the Otherworld in manuscript miscellanies.

The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England

Author : William Calin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442655259
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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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 857 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.

Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters

Author : Nicole Nyffenegger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443828203
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters written by Nicole Nyffenegger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers fresh insights into the plethora of medieval bodies and the multiple perspectives that can be assumed in their discussion. The ten essays by internationally renowned scholars and young academics encompass diverse approaches to the body such as the function of gestures, the gendered gaze, the body’s spatial and geographical positioning, the (dis)integrity of the body or the connection between linguistic uses of ‘body’ and physical bodies. While most of the contributions of this collection are in the field of medieval English literature, they underline the value of interdisciplinary approaches which connect them with neighbouring disciplines such as modern literature and arts, history, theology and gender studies. Contributors: Katharina Berger-Meister, Guillemette Bolens, Leslie Dunton-Downer, Laurie Finke, Angelina Keller, Andy Kelly, Fabienne Michelet, R. Allen Shoaf, Lotta Sigurdsson, and Paul Taylor.

Medieval Arthurian Literature

Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317656946
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Arthurian Literature written by Norris J. Lacy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is medieval vernacular literature in Western Europe. Chapters are written by experts in the area and present the current scholarship at the time this book was originally published in 1996. Each chapter has a bibliography of important works in that area as well. This is a thorough and reliable guide to trends in research on medieval Arthuriana.

Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry

Author : Mark C. Amodio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429589522
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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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 348 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.

Performing Medieval Narrative

Author : Evelyn Birge Vitz
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840398
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Performing Medieval Narrative written by Evelyn Birge Vitz and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive study of the performance of medieval narrative, using examples from England and the Continent and a variety of genres to examine the crucial question of whether - and how - medieval narratives were indeed intended for performance. Moving beyond the familiar dichotomy between oral and written literature, the various contributions emphasize the range and power of medieval performance traditions, and demonstrate that knowledge of the modes and means of performance is crucial for appreciating medieval narratives. The book is divided into four main parts, with each essay engaging with a specific issue or work, relating it to larger questions about performance. It first focuses on representations of the art of medieval performers of narrative. It then examines relationships between narrative performances and the material books that inspired, recorded, or represented them. The next section studies performance features inscribed in texts and the significance of considering performability. The volume concludes with contributions by present-day professional performers who bring medieval narratives to life for contemporary audiences. Topics covered include orality, performance, storytelling, music, drama, the material book, public reading, and court life.

The Arthur of the English

Author : W R J Barron
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786837412
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Arthur of the English written by W R J Barron and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive treatment of Arthurian literature in the English language up until the end of the Middle Ages is now available for the first time in paperback. English people think of Arthur as their own – stamped on the landscape in scores of place-names, echoed in the names of princes even today. Yet some would say the English were the historical Arthur’s bitterest enemies and usurpers of his heritage. The process by which Arthurian legends have become an important part of England’s cultural heritage is traced in this book. Previous studies have concentrated on the handful of chivalric romances, which have given the impression that Arthur is a hero of romantic escapism. This study seeks to provide a more comprehensive and insightful look at the English Arthurian legends and how they evolved. It focuses primarily upon the literary aspects of Arthurian legend, but it also makes some important political and social observations.

The Formation of the Hebrew Bible

Author : David M. Carr
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 019974260X
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Formation of the Hebrew Bible written by David M. Carr and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Carr rethinks both the methods and historical orientation points for research into the growth of the Hebrew Bible into its present form.

People and Texts

Author : Thea Summerfield
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042021454
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book People and Texts written by Thea Summerfield and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationships between people and texts form the focus of the studies collected in this book. It was presented to Erik Kooper in recognition of his lifelong efforts to bring together people from universities worldwide. It will be of special interest to scholars and students of Arthurian and Middle English literature, codicologists, scholars interested in medieval Latin sermons and the Gesta Herewardi, in medieval drama and in texts in Middle English, among them Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wynnere and Wastoure, Sir Eglamour, the Tale of Gamelyn, a nd, in Scots, the metrical chronicle of William Stewart. Articles on early twentieth-century Chaucerian scholarship and on many of the Old French Arthurian romances as well as the writings of Wace and Benoit de Sainte-Maure are also included. Contributors are Bart Besamusca, Frank Brandsma, Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., Keith Busby, D.J. Curnow and Ad Putter, Juliette Dor, Frans N.M. Diekstra, Karen Hodder and John Scattergood, Geert van Iersel, Douglas Kelly, Edward Donald Kennedy, Jane Roberts, Elsa Strietman and Thea Summerfield.

Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

Author : Laura C. Lambdin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136594256
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature written by Laura C. Lambdin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference is a comprehensive guide to literature written 500 to 1500 A.D., a period that gave rise to some of the world's most enduring and influential works, such as Dante's Commedia, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and a large body of Arthurian lore and legend. While its emphasis is upon medieval English texts and society, this reference also covers Islamic, Hispanic, Celtic, Mongolian, Germanic, Italian, and Russian literature and Middle Age culture. Longer entries provide thorough coverage of major English authors such as Chaucer and Sir Thomas Malory, and of genre entries, such as drama, lyric, ballad, debate, saga, chronicle, and hagiography. Shorter entries examine particular literary works; significant kings, artists, explorers, and religious leaders; important themes, such as courtly love and chivalry; and major historical events, such as the Crusades. Each entry concludes with a brief biography. The volume closes with a list of the most valuable general works for further reading.

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?

Author : Cristina Maria Cervone
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298519
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? written by Cristina Maria Cervone and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines, including literary criticism, musicology, art history, and cognitive science. Since the early 1900s, the poems have been categorized as “lyrics,” the term now used for most kinds of short poetry, yet neither the difficulties nor the promise of this treatment have received enough attention. In one way, the book argues, considering these poems to be lyrics obscures much of what is interesting about them. Since the nineteenth century, lyrics have been thought of as subjective and best read without reference to cultural context, yet nonetheless they are taken to form a distinct literary tradition. Since Middle English short poems are often communal and usually spoken, sung, and/or danced, this lyric template is not a good fit. In another way, however, the very differences between these poems and the later ones on which current debates about the lyric still focus suggest they have much to offer those debates, and vice versa. As its title suggests, this book thus goes back to the basics, asking fundamental questions about what these poems are, how they function formally and culturally, how they are (and are not) related to other bodies of short poetry, and how they might illuminate and be illuminated by contemporary lyric scholarship. Eleven chapters by medievalists and two responses by modernists, all in careful conversation with one another, reflect on these questions and suggest very different answers. The editors’ introduction synthesizes these answers by suggesting that these poems can most usefully be read as a kind of “play,” in several senses of that word. The book ends with eight “new Middle English lyrics” by seven contemporary poets.

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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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.

Manifest in Words, Written on Paper

Author : Christopher M.B. Nugent
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170540
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Manifest in Words, Written on Paper written by Christopher M.B. Nugent and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to engage the textual realities of medieval literature by shedding light on the material lives of poems during the Tang, from their initial oral or written instantiation through their often lengthy and twisted paths of circulation. Tang poems exist today in stable written forms assumed to reflect their creators’ original intent. Yet Tang poetic culture was based on hand-copied manuscripts and oral performance. We have almost no access to this poetry as it was experienced by contemporaries. This is no trivial matter, the author argues. If we do not understand how Tang people composed, experienced, and transmitted this poetry, we miss something fundamental about the roles of memory and copying in the circulation of poetry as well as readers’ dynamic participation in the creation of texts. We learn something different about poems when we examine them, not as literary works transcending any particular physical form, but as objects with distinct physical attributes, visual and sonic. The attitudes of the Tang audience toward the stability of texts matter as well. Understanding Tang poetry requires acknowledging that Tang literary culture accepted the conscious revision of these works by authors, readers, and transmitters. 2012 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

The Perilous Cemetery

Author : Nancy Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429588798
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Perilous Cemetery written by Nancy Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1994: In The Perilous Cemetery adventure, Gawain is required to fight the devil himself. In repayment for having cured a young woman of madness, the devil keeps her entombed in a grave by day and requires her by night to fulfil his sexual desires.

Medieval Oral Literature

Author : Karl Reichl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110241129
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Oral Literature written by Karl Reichl and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition. Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. ‘Medieval Oral Literature’, a volume in the ‘De Gruyter Lexikon’ series, was written by an international team of twenty-five scholars and offers a thorough discussion of theoretical approaches as well as detailed presentations of individual traditions and genres. In addition to chapters on the oral-formulaic theory, on the interplay of orality and writing in the Early Middle Ages, on performance and performers, on oral poetics and on ritual aspects of orality, there are chapters on the Older Germanic, Romance, Middle High German, Middle English, Celtic, Greek-Byzantine, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish traditions of oral literature. There is a special focus on epic and lyric, genres that are also discussed in separate chapters, with additional chapters on the ballad and on drama.