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Author : Carol M. Meale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0859914046
Wide-ranging essays engaging with all aspects of medieval romance, from textual studies to historical sources.
Author : Robert Allen Rouse
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1843840413
Using a variety of texts, but the Matter of England romances in particular, the author argues that they show a continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon past, from the localised East Sussex legend of King Alfred that underlies the twelfth-century Proverbs of Alfred, to the institutional interest in the Guy of Warwick narrative exhibited by the community of St Swithun's Priory in Winchester during the fifteenth century; they are part of a continued cultural remembrance that encompasses chronicles, folk memories, and literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jennifer Fellows
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015043788465
This collection of essays provide an analysis of medieval romance narrative in Britain. The historical and cultural contexts within which several romances were produced, and their putative patrons and audiences, are the focus of several of the contributions, whilst others discuss romance manuscripts and their scribes, uncovering evidence of careful scribal co-operation and planning. The popular appeal and longevity of the genre emerge in discussions of romance's ability to reinvigorate traditional tales and of the changes it sustains over the centuries in order to satisfy the tastes of its largely bourgeois audience.
Author : S. H. A. Shepherd,Stephen H. A. Shepherd
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393966070
This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance.
Author : Gail Ashton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847062505
Structured in three parts, this book focuses on immediate contexts, key texts, and wider contexts enabling development from background issues through the actual literary texts to criticism and afterlives.
Author : Ad Putter,Jane Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317885566
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.
Author : Michael Staveley Cichon,Rhiannon Purdie
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842606
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 : David Frame Johnson,Elaine M. Treharne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199261636
Readings in Medieval Texts offers a thorough and accessible introduction to the interpretation and criticism of a broad range of Old and Middle English canonical texts from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume brings together 24 newly commissioned chapters by a leading international team of medieval scholars. An introductory chapter highlights the overarching trends in the composition of English Literature in the Medieval periods, and provides an overview of the textual continuities and innovations. Individual chapters give detailed information about context, authorship, date, and critical views on texts, before providing fascinating and thought-provoking examinations of crucial excerpts and themes. This book will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students on all courses in Medieval Studies, particularly those focusing on understanding literature and its role in society.
Author : Kim M. Philips
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 071905964X
The medieval landscape, as viewed through the eyes of scholars, was hardly populated by women. Particularly, young unmarried women or "maidens" have been paid little attention. This book aims to fill that gap by examining the meaning, experiences and voices of young womanhood. The life-phase of “adolescence” was different for maidens than for young men, and as such merits study in its own right. At the same time a study of young womanhood provides insights into ideals of feminine gender roles and identities at different social levels.
Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199679782
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 : Gail Ashton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441129956
Medieval Romance in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues and events that impacted on romance writing and its reception such as chivalric ideals, the Black Death, wars and 'Englishness' as well as key literary issues such as medieval manuscript production and its transmission. Close readings of key texts - including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Breton lays and Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale - highlight generic features and issues like family drama, space and time, and nationhood. The final section introduces key critical interpretations from different perspectives including gender and queer theory, and post-colonialism in medieval studies. A chapter on afterlives and adaptations explores reinterpretations of medieval romance and the Arthurian cycles in a range of popular texts and narratives from Doctor Who to Batman. 'Review, Reading and Research' sections give suggestions for further reading, discussion and research. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying Medieval Romance.
Author : Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879721146
The Middle English romance has elicited throughout the centuries a curious mixture of indifference,hostile apprehension, and contempt that perhaps no other literature--except its most likely offspring, modern best-sellers--has provoked.
Author : Andrew M. Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108926665
Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped and were in turn influenced by contemporary perspectives on the natural world. These popular texts also reveal widespread concern regarding the damaging effects of human actions and climate change. The natural world was a constant presence in the writing, thoughts, and lives of the audiences and authors of medieval English romance - and these close readings reveal that our environmental concerns go back further in our history and culture than we think.
Author : Rosalind Field,Phillipa Hardman,Michelle Sweeney
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781843842194
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 : Raluca L. Radulescu,Cory James Rushton
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843842705
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.