The Exploitations Of Medieval Romance

Author : Laura Ashe,Ivana Djordjević,Judith Elizabeth Weiss,Ivana Djordjevic
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842125

Get Book

The Exploitations of Medieval Romance by Laura Ashe,Ivana Djordjević,Judith Elizabeth Weiss,Ivana Djordjevic Pdf

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 : Nicholas Perkins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843900

Get Book

Medieval Romance and Material Culture by Nicholas Perkins Pdf

Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves.

Author : Katherine C. Little,Nicola McDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192514363

Get Book

Thinking Medieval Romance by Katherine C. Little,Nicola McDonald Pdf

Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an idealized fantasy of chivalry and hierarchy, and also for our understanding of romances, as always already archaic, part of a half-forgotten past. And yet, romances were one of the most influential and long-lasting innovations of the medieval period. To emphasize their novelty is to see the resources medieval people had for thinking about their contemporary concern and controversies, whether social order, Jewish/ Christian relations, the Crusades, the connectivity of the Mediterranean, women's roles as mothers, and how to write a national past. This volume takes up the challenge to 'think romance', investigating the various ways that romances imagine, reflect, and describe the challenges of the medieval world.

Author : Rosalind Field
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0859915530

Get Book

Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance by Rosalind Field Pdf

Romance studies from the twelfth century to the era of the printed book.

Author : Neil Cartlidge
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 184384155X

Get Book

Boundaries in Medieval Romance by Neil Cartlidge Pdf

A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance.

Author : Albert Booth Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000077127

Get Book

An Introduction to Medieval Romance by Albert Booth Taylor Pdf

Author : Ad Putter,Jane Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317885566

Get Book

The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance by Ad Putter,Jane Gilbert Pdf

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 : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521556872

Get Book

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger Pdf

This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.

Author : Dennis Howard Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521813990

Get Book

The Beginnings of Medieval Romance by Dennis Howard Green Pdf

Publisher Description

Author : Raluca L. Radulescu,Cory James Rushton
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843842705

Get Book

A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance by Raluca L. Radulescu,Cory James Rushton Pdf

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 : Amy Noelle Vines
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842750

Get Book

Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance by Amy Noelle Vines Pdf

A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.

Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1913-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

A Dictionary of Medieval Romance and Romance Writers by Lewis Spence Pdf

Author : Albert B. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:469316304

Get Book

An Introduction to Medieval Romance by Albert B. Taylor Pdf

Author : Carol M. Meale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0859914046

Get Book

Readings in Medieval English Romance by Carol M. Meale Pdf

Wide-ranging essays engaging with all aspects of medieval romance, from textual studies to historical sources.

Author : William Raymond Johnston Barron
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : UOM:39076000894332

Get Book

English Medieval Romance by William Raymond Johnston Barron Pdf

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'.