The Literature Of Hope In The Middle Ages And Today

Author : Flo Keyes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786425969

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The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages and Today by Flo Keyes Pdf

The influence of medieval literature is instantly apparent in modern fantasy literature, where knights and wizards populate castle-strewn landscapes. Less obvious but still recognizable is the influence in science fiction, which draws on medieval story structure and themes. Beyond these superficial similarities, deeper connections become evident through an analysis of the literature's social function. Like the fantasy and science fiction of today, the romances of the Middle Ages were written in times of extreme and prolonged social upheaval. In all three genres, the storytellers draw on the same archetypes--the hero, the quest, the transformation--for stories whose goal is to provide hope. Using Jungian theory and comparative analysis, this book explores the connections between the three genres. It finds common ground among them in plots that often reflect the recurring cycle of life and the elements of psychological rather than literal realism. Representative texts such as Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, the Witch World series by Andre Norton and More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon are examined in depth, and the use of archetypes in each is thoroughly explored. Analysis reveals similarities in images, structures, and the pervasive belief that a perfectible universe is within man's capabilities--if not now, then someday.

Author : Dominic Janes,Gary Waller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351874038

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Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity by Dominic Janes,Gary Waller Pdf

Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site. Following its modern revival it is also well known today. For nearly a thousand years, it has been the subject of, or referred to in, music, poetry and novels (by for instance Langland, Erasmus, Sidney, Shakespeare, Hopkins, Eliot and Lowell). But only in the last twenty years or so has it received serious scholarly attention. This volume represents the first collection of multi-disciplinary essays on Walsingham's broader cultural significance. Contributors to this book focus on the hitherto neglected issue of Walsingham's cultural impact: the literary, historical, art historical and sociological significance that Walsingham has had for over six hundred years. The collection's essays consider connections between landscape and the sacred, the body and sexuality and Walsingham's place in literature, music and, more broadly, especially since the Reformation, in the construction of cultural memory. The historical range of the essays includes Walsingham's rise to prominence in the later Middle Ages, its destruction during the English Reformation, and the presence of uncanny echoes and traces in early modern English culture, including poems, ballads, music and some of the plays of Shakespeare. Contributions also examine the cultural dynamics of the remarkable revival of Walsingham as a place of pilgrimage and as a cultural icon in the Victorian and modern periods. Hitherto, scholarship on Walsingham has been almost entirely confined to the history of religion. In contrast, contributors to this volume include internationally known scholars from literature, cultural studies, history, sociology, anthropology and musicology as well as theology.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000205022

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Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, predicated their works on the notion of the trail and elaborated on its epistemological function. We can grasp here an essential concept that determines much of medieval and early modern European literature and philosophy, addressing the direction which all protagonists pursue, as powerfully illustrated also by the anonymous poets of Herzog Ernst and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Dante’s Divina Commedia, in fact, proves to be one of the most explicit poetic manifestations of the fundamental idea of the trail, but we find strong parallels also in powerful contemporary works such as Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de la vie humaine and in many mystical tracts.

Author : Ernst Robert Curtius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691157009

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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius Pdf

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.

Author : Christopher Dyczek
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527551718

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Theologies of Hope in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Christopher Dyczek Pdf

This book is a translation of J. G. Bougerol's research, and positions this in relation to recent post-doctoral studies of the Summa Halensis from King's College, London. It identifies literary aspects of religious fears in medieval and nineteenth century theology as both a New Testament and a scholastic problem. Academically trained preachers, in European culture, are viewed through the lens of dynamic community language, and Franciscan initiatives for confident, peace-seeking theology are mapped out in detail.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135677749

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The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages by Albrecht Classen Pdf

The computer revolution is upon us. The future of books and of reading are debated. Will there be books in the next millennium? Will we still be reading? As uncertain as the answers to these questions might be, as clear is the message about the value of the book expressed by medieval writers. The contributors to the volume The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages explore the significance of the written document as the key icon of a whole era. Both philosophers and artists, both poets and clerics wholeheartedly subscribed to the notion that reading and writing represented essential epistemological tools for spiritual, political, religious, and philosophical quests. To gain a deeper understanding of the cultural significance of the medieval book, the contributors to this volume examine pertinent statements by medieval philosophers and French, German, English, Spanish, and Italian poets.

Author : Karl Julius Holzknecht
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0714610623

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Literary Patronage in the Middle Ages by Karl Julius Holzknecht Pdf

First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Dawn LaValle Norman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108627511

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The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature by Dawn LaValle Norman Pdf

This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized and takes as its prime example the understudied Christian writer Methodius of Olympus. Among his many works, this book focuses on his dialogic Symposium, a text which exposes an era's new concern to re-orient the gaze of a generation from the past onto the future. Dr LaValle Norman makes the further argument that scholarship on the Imperial period that does not include Christian writers within its purview misses the richness of this period, which was one of deepening interaction between Christian and non-Christian writers. Only through recovering this conversation can we understand the transitional period that led to the rise of Constantine.

Author : Brian Hebblethwaite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199589470

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The Christian Hope by Brian Hebblethwaite Pdf

Since The Christian Hope was first published in 1984, eschatology has remained a central concern of Christian Theology. This updated edition allows a new readership to engage afresh with questions of eschatology in a twenty-first century context. --Book Jacket.

Author : William Chester Jordan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780140166644

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Europe in the High Middle Ages by William Chester Jordan Pdf

With a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has turned his considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe. He brings this period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultural, religious and military change, alive to the general reader. Jordan presents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it. Broad in scope, punctuated with impressive detail, and highly accessible, Jordan's book is set to occupy a central place in university courses of the medieval period.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666941227

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Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Examining literary narratives from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, this book explores how writers used their craft to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the Middle Ages.

Author : Samuel Roffey Maitland
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129565167X

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The Dark Ages by Samuel Roffey Maitland Pdf

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : American literature
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000029992

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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors by Samuel Austin Allibone Pdf

Author : Christopher Kleinhenz,Fannie LeMoine
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0299164349

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Fearful Hope by Christopher Kleinhenz,Fannie LeMoine Pdf

Papers from conference "Waiting in Fearful Hope"--Madison, Wis., 21-24 September 1997.

Author : Howard Malcom
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375014377

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References to the Principal Works in every Department of Religious Literature by Howard Malcom Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.