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Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1107658926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.
Author: Karla Mallette
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-09-17
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 022679606X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart I: Group Portrait with Language -- Chapter 1: A Poetics of the Cosmopolitan Language -- Chapter 2: My Tongue -- Chapter 3: A Cat May Look at a King -- Part II: Space, Place, and the Cosmopolitan Language -- Chapter 4: Territory / Frontiers / Routes -- Chapter 5: Tracks -- Chapter 6: Tribal Rugs -- Part III: Translation and Time -- Chapter 7: The Soul of a New Language -- Chapter 8: On First Looking into Mattā's Aristotle -- Chapter 9: "I Became a Fable" -- Chapter 10: A Spy in the House of Language -- Part IV: Beyond the Cosmopolitan Language -- Chapter 11: Silence -- Chapter 12: The Shadow of Latinity -- Chapter 13: Life Writing.
Author: MARY KATE. HURLEY
Publisher:
Published: 2025-01-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780814257951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how translation in texts from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints to Chaucer imagines political, cultural, and linguistic communities.
Author: Stephen Knight
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-01
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 100034018X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early heroic texts relate to the issues surrounding leadership and conflict in Wales, France and England, and how the myth of the Grail and the French reworking of Celtic stories relate to contemporary society and its concerns. Further chapters examine Chaucer’s readings of his social world, the medieval reworkings of the Arthur and Merlin myths, and the popular social statements in ballads and other literary forms. The concluding chapters examine the Anglo-nationalist `Arctic Arthur’, and the ways in which Arthur, Merlin and Robin Hood can be treated in terms of modern studies of the history of emotions and the environment. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Europe, as well as those interested in social and political history, medieval literature and modern medievalism (CS 1099).
Author: Huw Pryce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-02-05
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521570398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1998 collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous work as well as presenting the fruits of much new research, the book seeks to highlight the interest and importance of Celtic uses of literacy for the study of both medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of the Celtic countries in the Middle Ages. Among the topics discussed are the uses and significance of charter-writing, the interplay of oral and literate modes in the composition and transmission of medieval Irish and Welsh genealogies, prose narratives and poetry, the survival of Celtic culture in Brittany and of Gaelic literacy in eastern Scotland in the twelfth century, and pragmatic uses of literacy in later medieval Wales.
Author: Wendy Scase
Publisher: New Medieval Literatures
Published: 2001-06-14
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780198187387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.
Author: Ralph Hanna
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-08
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780521848350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRalph Hanna charts the generic and linguistic features particular to London writing.
Author: Michael Johnston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-08-10
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1107066190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.
Author: William E. Burgwinkle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07-08
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1139454765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Burgwinkle surveys poetry and letters, histories and literary fiction - including Grail romances - to offer a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, courtly love, and Arthurian lore. Burgwinkle illustrates how 'sodomy' becomes a problematic feature of narratives of romance and knighthood. Most texts of the period denounce sodomy and use accusations of sodomitical practice as a way of maintaining a sacrificial climate in which masculine identity is set in opposition to the stigmatised other, for example the foreign, the feminine, and the heretical. What emerges from these readings, however, is that even the most homophobic, masculinist and normative texts of the period demonstrate an inability or unwillingness to separate the sodomitical from the orthodox. These blurred boundaries allow readers to glimpse alternative, even homoerotic, readings.
Author: Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-12-06
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1442663405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications today to discuss the convergence of the literary, social, and economic histories of the medieval Mediterranean. This volume takes as a starting point María Rosa Menocal's groundbreaking work The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, a major catalyst in the reconsideration of prevailing assumptions regarding the insularity of medieval European literature. Reframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical resource and reference point for a new generation of scholars and students on the intersection of Arabic and European literature.
