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Author | : Linda Marie Zaerr |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843843234 |
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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 | : Jamie McKinstry |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843844176 |
Download Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Evelyn Birge Vitz |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843840398 |
Download Performing Medieval Narrative Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A survey of an investigation into whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.
Author | : Raluca L. Radulescu |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 184384270X |
Download A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Kathryn A. Duys |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843843919 |
Download Telling the Story in the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Much of our modern understanding of medieval society and cultures comes through the stories people told and the way they told them. Storytelling was, for this period, not only entertainment; it was central to the law, religious ritual and teaching, as well as the primary mode of delivering news. The essays in this volume raise and discuss a number of questions concerning the strategies, contexts and narratalogical features of medieval storytelling. They look particularly at who tells the story; the audience; how a story is told and performed; and the manuscript and social context for such tales. Laurie Postlewate is Senior Lecturer, Department of French, Barnard College; Kathryn Duys is Associate Professor, Department of English and Foreign Languages, University of St Francis; Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French, Montclair State University.
Author | : Laura Ashe |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843842122 |
Download The Exploitations of Medieval Romance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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
Author | : Larry Scanlon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2009-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521841674 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
Author | : Geraldine Barnes |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780859913621 |
Download Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Barnes contends that `rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of Middle English romance.
Author | : Derek Attridge |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198833156 |
Download The Experience of Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance of poetry in western culture.
Author | : Mark C. Amodio |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0429589522 |
Download Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.