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Analysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend.
Author : Frank Brandsma
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843844214
Analysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend.
Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 100034018X
Medieval 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 : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526176122
Over the last twenty-five years, the ‘history of emotion’ field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of historians in the field, has had the unlooked-for consequence of sidelining literature — in particular secular literature — as evidence-source and object of emotion study. Secular literature, whether fable, novel, fantasy or romance, has been understood as prone to exaggeration, hyperbole, and thus as an unreliable indicator of the emotions of the past. The aim of this book is to decentre history of emotion research and asks new questions, ones that can be answered by literary scholars, using literary texts as sources: how do literary texts understand and depict emotion and, crucially, how do they generate emotion in their audiences — those who read them or hear them read or performed?
Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014192912X
From the No. 1 bestselling author of WAR LORD comes an epic retelling of the Arthurian legend, from the bestselling Last Kingdom series Uniting the restive British kingdoms behind him, Arthur believes he can now hold back the Saxons threatening the country. Meanwhile, Merlin sets out on a quest to uncover the sacred Treasures of Britain, hoping they will prove decisive in the coming battle. But in a country where the cult of the Christians is spreading, Merlin's quest is divisive. And the ambitions of the rival warlord Lancelot threaten the delicate peace. Could even those closest to Arthur be moved to betray him? From the epic bestselling author, Enemy of God brilliantly retells the Arthurian legend, combining myth, history and thrilling battlefield action. ______ 'Wonderful and haunting' People Magazine 'Of all the books I have written these are my favourites' Bernard Cornwell
Author : Megan G. Leitch
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 152615109X
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.
Author : Jamie McKinstry
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843844176
An examination of the depiction and function of memory in a variety of romances, including Troilus and Criseyde and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Author : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 190315362X
A wideranging and groundbreaking investigation of the sibling relationship as shown in European literature, from 500 to 1500.
Author : Alice Hazard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1843845873
Modern theoretical approaches throw new light on the concepts of face and faciality in the Roman de la Rose and other French texts from the Middle Ages.
Author : Kevin S. Whetter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843846470
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT This issue offers stimulating studies of a wide range of Arthurian texts and authors, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, among which is the first winner of the Derek Brewer Essay Prize, awarded to a fascinating exploration of Ragnelle's strangeness in The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnelle. It includes an exploration of Irish and Welsh cognates and possible sources for Merlin; Bakhtinian analysis of Geoffrey of Monmouth's playful discourse; and an account of the transmission of Geoffrey's text into Old Icelandic. In the Middle English tradition, there is an investigation of material Arthuriana in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, followed by explorations of shame in Malory's Morte Darthur. The post-medieval articles see one paper devoted to the paratexts of sixteenth-century French Arthurian publishers; one to eighteenth-century Arthuriana; and one to a range of nineteenth-century rewritings of the virginity of Galahad and Percival's Sister. Two Notes close this volume: one on Geoffrey's Vita Merlini and a possible Irish source, and one on a likely source for Malory's linking of Trystram with the Book of Hunting and Hawking in an early form of The Book of St Albans.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110556529
There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.