Amis and Amiloun
Author | : MacEdward Leach |
Publisher | : Early English Text Society |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2001-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859919371 |
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Author | : MacEdward Leach |
Publisher | : Early English Text Society |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2001-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859919371 |
Author | : Michael Johnston |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2014-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199679789 |
showing that contrary to the commonly held view that romances are representative of the "popular culture" of their day, in fact such texts appealed primarily to the gentry, England's elite landowners who lacked titles of nobility.
Author | : Rosalind Field |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 184384219X |
The essays collected here show how the romances of medieval England engaged with contemporary Christian culture, and demonstrate the importance of reading them with an awareness of that culture.
Author | : William Raymond Johnston Barron |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Starting with the European roots of romance, Dr Barron devotes the main body of his book to a detailed study of the English corpus. He discusses its rich variety of forms in the later Middle Ages, concluding that the English romances show their own conception of the romantic `mode'.
Author | : Neil Cartlidge |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843841555 |
A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance.
Author | : Corinne J. Saunders |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843842211 |
"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.
Author | : Marijane Osborn |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2010-03-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1551119978 |
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.
Author | : Linda Marie Zaerr |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843843234 |
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.
Author | : Michael Staveley Cichon |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1843842602 |
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
Author | : Laura Ashe |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843842122 |
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