Approaches To Teaching The Song Of Roland

Author : William W. Kibler,Leslie Zarker Morgan
Publisher : Approaches to Teaching World L
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015067671530

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Approaches to Teaching the Song of Roland by William W. Kibler,Leslie Zarker Morgan Pdf

Each book contains a CD featuring performances of the Song of Roland. The Song of Roland is a well-known hallmark of medieval French literature, yet students often read only excerpts and receive general introductions to the poem and its context. The challenges of teaching Roland include its age and subject matter, its form and composition in Old French, and its representation of Christians and Muslims. This volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature aims to help nonspecialist instructors teach Roland more comprehensively and to offer seasoned medievalists ways to invigorate their pedagogical tactics. Part 1, "Materials," surveys available editions, a wide range of secondary studies devoted to the poem, and electronic aids to teaching. Essays in part 2, "Approaches," elaborate on the poem's contexts, avatars, language techniques, and characters and episodes; describe the diverse classroom strategies that experienced instructors have implemented; and review the voluminous critical canon about the poem. The musical quality of the Song of Roland is vital for students to grasp. A compact disc accompanying the volume showcases reconstructions of sung performances of the Song of Roland in Old French. The examples offered here illuminate the rich quality of Roland's archaic language and demonstrate a few efforts to recover its lost music. Paired with performances of Roland are melodies used as models for singing the poem.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846963

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Three Preludes to the Song of Roland by Anonim Pdf

The first English translation of three chansons de geste inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland. The success of the eleventh-century Song of Roland gave rise to a series of around twenty related chansons de geste, known collectively as the Cycle of the King. In addition to reworkings of the Song of Roland in Old French and other medieval languages, these poems are devoted to the numerous military campaigns of Charlemagne against the Muslims before and after the tragic Battle of Roncevaux. These texts provide valuable insights into the medieval reception of the Roland material, exemplifying the process of cycle formation and attesting to the diversity of the Romance epic. Far from presenting a simplistic view of the clash of civilizations, these chansons de geste display a web of contradictions, offering both a glorification and a critique of hatred and violence. This volume offers the first English translations of the three epic poems whose action directly precedes the events of the Song of Roland. Gui of Burgundy extends the period of time spent in Spain by Charles and his army from seven to twenty-six years, which gives the sons of the Twelve Peers the opportunity to reach adulthood and come to the rescue of their fathers. Roland at Saragossa, composed in Occitan, takes place in the days immediately preceding the decisive defeat and relates in an heroi-comic manner how Roland sneaks into Saragossa at the request of the pagan Queen Braslimonda, who has been enraptured by his strength and beauty. Finally, Otinel tells of a Saracen envoy who comes to Paris to challenge Charlemagne on behalf of the Emir Garsile, who has his capital in Lombardy. The action takes place in France and northern Italy in a lull between the capture of Pamplona and the defeat at Roncevaux. The translations are presented with notes, and the volume includes an introduction placing the poems in their wider historical and cultural contexts.

Author : Jo Ann Cavallo
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603296199

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Teaching World Epics by Jo Ann Cavallo Pdf

Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have significant consequences for their lives and their communities. Incorporating narrative elements also found in sacred history, chronicle, saga, legend, romance, myth, folklore, and the novel, epics throughout history have both animated the imagination and encouraged reflection on what it means to be human. Teaching World Epics addresses ancient and more recent epic works from Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are available in English translations. Useful to instructors of literature, peace and conflict studies, transnational studies, women's studies, and religious studies, the essays in this volume focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural contexts, on the adaptation and reception of epic works, and on themes that are especially relevant today, such as gender dynamics and politics, national identity, colonialism and imperialism, violence, and war. This volume includes discussion of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Giulia Bigolina's Urania, The Book of Dede Korkut, Luís Vaz de Camões's Os Lusíadas, David of Sassoun, The Epic of Askia Mohammed, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the epic of Sun-Jata, Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga's La Araucana, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Kalevala, Kebra Nagast, Kudrun, The Legend of Poṉṉivaḷa Nadu, the Mahabharata, Manas, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Mwindo, the Nibelungenlied, Poema de mio Cid, Popol Wuj, the Ramayana, the Shahnameh, Sirat Bani Hilal, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Statius's Thebaid, The Tale of the Heike, Three Kingdoms, Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México, and Virgil's Aeneid.

Author : Adrian P. Tudor,Kristin L. Burr
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813057194

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Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature by Adrian P. Tudor,Kristin L. Burr Pdf

This collection considers the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in numerous ways. The works analyzed span genres—epic, romance, lyric poetry, hagiography, fabliaux—and historical periods from the twelfth century to the late Middle Ages. Contributors examine the complexity of the notion of self through a wide range of lenses, from marginal characters to gender to questions of voice and naming. Studying a variety of texts—including Conte du Graal, Roman de la Rose, Huon de Bordeaux, and the Oxford Roland—they conceptualize the Other Within as an individual who simultaneously exists within a group while remaining foreign to it. They explore the complex interactions between and among individuals and groups, and demonstrate how identity can be imposed and self-imposed not only by characters but by authors and audiences. Taken together, these essays highlight the fluidity and complexity of identity in medieval French texts, and underscore both the richness of the literature and its engagement with questions that are at once more and less modern than they initially appear. Contributors: Adrian P. Tudor | Kristin L. Burr | William Burgwinkle | Jane Gilbert | Francis Gingras | Sara I. James | Douglas Kelly | Mary Jane Schenck | James R. Simpson | Jane H.M. Taylor

Author : Susanna Fein,Elizabeth Melick,David Raybin
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781580444125

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The Roland and Otuel Romances and the Anglo-Norman Otinel by Susanna Fein,Elizabeth Melick,David Raybin Pdf

This edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances center on conflicts between Frankish Christians and various Saracen groups, and deal with issues of racial and religious difference, conversion, and faith-based violence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004216167

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 3 (1050-1200) by Anonim Pdf

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 3 (CMR3) is a history of all the works on Christian-Muslim relations from 1050 to 1200. It comprises introductory essays and over one hundred entries containing descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details of individual works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208154

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"Moult a sans et vallour" by Anonim Pdf

William W. Kibler is one of the most productive and versatile medievalists of his generation. Some scholars and students think of him primarily as a specialist in the medieval epic, whereas others consider him to be an Arthurian scholar. He is of course both, but he is also much more: a consummate philologist and editor of texts and also a prolific and accomplished translator. Above all, those who know him best know him as an extraordinarily generous and modest man. The present volume represents an effort by thirty medievalists, specialists in fields as diverse as William Kibler’s interests, to indicate our respect for him, aptly described in the foreword as “scholar, teacher, friend.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. Gabriele,J. Stuckey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230615441

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The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages by M. Gabriele,J. Stuckey Pdf

These essays take advantage of a new, exciting trend towards interdisciplinary research on the Charlemagne legend. Written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, these essays focus on the multifaceted ways the Charlemagne legend functioned in the Middle Ages and how central the shared (if nonetheless fictional) memory of the great Frankish ruler was to the medieval West. A gateway to new research on memory, crusading, apocalyptic expectation, Carolingian historiography, and medieval kingship, the contributors demonstrate the fuzzy line separating "fact" and "fiction" in the Middle Ages.

Author : Sif Rikhardsdottir
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843842897

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Medieval Translations and Cultural Discourse by Sif Rikhardsdottir Pdf

An examination of what the translation of medieval French texts into different European languages can reveal about the differences between cultures.

Author : Jacqueline Jenkins,Julie Sanders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137320117

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Editing, Performance, Texts by Jacqueline Jenkins,Julie Sanders Pdf

The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars.

Author : Helen Fulton,Sif Rikhardsdottir
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 9781843846680

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Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds by Helen Fulton,Sif Rikhardsdottir Pdf

Captured here for the first time is the richness of the Charlemagne tradition in medieval Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Wales and Ireland and its coherence as a series of adaptations of Old French chansons de geste

Author : William F. Woods
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476651743

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The Hero's Mortal Walls by William F. Woods Pdf

The heroes of early narrative are the faces of an older world. In constant retellings, their stories hold the memory like members of an extended family. Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Beowulf, Gawain, Roland, Yvain, Genji--in their colorful, often exaggerated ways, they show how the people of their own time and place liked to know themselves. The heroes embody their identity and reflect their culture. Because their world was difficult and dangerous, every hero needed defensive strengths. This book analyzes seven iconic heroes and compares each champion to a walled town or castle, hardened against an outer threat. These defenses are the mortal walls of their identity--their strengths against the world, as well as their dealings within it--and are exemplified in their actions as warriors, distinct rhetoric, complex relationships with women, and devotion to the divine. By delving into some of early narrative's most renowned heroes, the book reveals the pieces of their inner selves that even they cannot keep outside the walls but must finally accept with firm humility.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110285420

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Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both in light of ecocritical readings and social-historical approaches. While previous scholars examined the figure of the peasant in the premodern world, the current volume combines a large number of specialized studies that investigate how the natural environment and the appearance of members of the rural population interacted with the world of the court and of the city. The experience in rural space was important already for writers and artists in the premodern era, as the large variety of scholarly approaches indicates. The present volume signals how much the surprisingly close interaction between members of the aristocratic and of the peasant class determined many literary and art-historical works. In a surprisingly large number of cases we can even discover elements of utopia hidden in rural space. We also observe how much the rural world was a significant element already in early-medieval mentality. Moreover, as many authors point out, the impact of natural forces on premodern society was tremendous, if not catastrophic.

Author : Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521883431

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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 36 by Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes Pdf

Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 36 include: The tabernacula of Gregory the Great and the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England by Flora Spiegel; The career of Aldhelm by Michael Lapidge; The name 'Merovingian' and the dating of Beowulf by Walter Goffart; An abbot, an archbishop and the Viking raids of 1006-7 and 1009-12 by Simon Keynes; and Demonstrative behaviour and political communication in later Anglo-Saxon England by Julia Barrow.