Author : Carol M. Meale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780859914048
Wide-ranging essays engaging with all aspects of medieval romance, from textual studies to historical sources.
Author : Andrew M. Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108913091
Our 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 : S. H. A. Shepherd
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393966077
This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance.
Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2014-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0199679789
showing 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
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1847062504
Structured 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 : Piotr Spyra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 100009281X
Examining 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
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 184384219X
The 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 : J. Wade
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230119158
This 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 : Jane Bliss
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843841592
A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance.
Author : David Frame Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199261635
Readings 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.
