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Author: Carol M. Meale
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780859914048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWide-ranging essays engaging with all aspects of medieval romance, from textual studies to historical sources.
Author: Andrew M. Richmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-08-05
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 1108913091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur 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: Michael Johnston
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0199679789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKshowing 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: A&C Black
Published: 2010-04-15
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1847062504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStructured 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: S. H. A. Shepherd
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780393966077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance.
Author: J. Wade
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-05-23
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0230119158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to construct a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.
Author: Piotr Spyra
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-13
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 100009281X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies with close readings of selected romance texts. Tracing different meanings and manifestations of liminality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal, Thomas of Erceldoune and Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice, the volume offers a comprehensive theory of liminality rooted in structuralist anthropology and poststructuralist theory. Arguing that romance fairies both embody and represent the liminal, The Liminality of Fairies posits and answers fundamental theoretical questions about the limits of representation and the relationship between romance hermeneutics and criticism. The interdisciplinary nature of the argument will appeal not just to medievalists and literary critics but also to anthropologists, folklorists as well as scholars working within the fields of cultural history and contemporary literary theory.
Author: Rosalind Field
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 184384219X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: David Frame Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780199261635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReadings 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: Gail Ashton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-02-11
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1441129952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval 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.
