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Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature

Author : Norris J. Lacy

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 22,65 MB

Release : 2013-02-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1135813876

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First published in 1996. Intertextuality the phenomenon is as old as literature itself. And to medievalists in particular, it was a critical commonplace long before the term was coined: we have routinely recognized that, during the Middle Ages, texts consistently borrowed from one another and from the traditions they all shared. Those borrowings can take the form of thematic echoes, of the appropriation of characters and situations, and even of direct citation. This volume is a collection of essays discussing the intertextual dimensions of Arthurian literature.



Correspondences

Author : T. A. Shippey

Publisher : DS Brewer

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 42,87 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Art, Medieval

ISBN : 9781843840633

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Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance

Author : K.S. Whetter

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 12,25 MB

Release : 2017-05-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317004922

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Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a significant contribution to ongoing critical debates over the definition of romance and the genre and artistry of Malory's Morte Darthur. K.S. Whetter offers an original approach to these issues by prefacing a comprehensive study of romance with a wide-ranging and historically diverse study of genre and genre theory. In doing so Whetter addresses the questions of why and how romance might usefully be defined and how such an awareness of genre-and the expectations that come with such awareness-impact upon both our understanding of the texts themselves and of how they may have been received by their contemporary medieval audiences. As an integral part the study Whetter offers a detailed examination of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, a text usually considered a straightforward romance but which Whetter argues should be re-classified and reconsidered as a generic mixture best termed tragic-romance. This new classification is important in helping to explain a number of so-called inconsistencies or puzzles in Malory's text and further elucidates Malory's artistry. Whetter offers a powerful meditation upon genre, romance and the Morte which will be of interest to faculty, graduate students and undergraduates alike.



Handbook of Arthurian Romance

Author : Leah Tether

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 563 pages

File Size : 20,89 MB

Release : 2017-06-26

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 3110432463

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The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin chronicles of "historians" such as Geoffrey of Monmouth into masterful literary works like the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Evidently a big hit, Arthur found himself being swiftly translated, adapted and integrated into the literary traditions of almost every European vernacular during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This Handbook seeks to showcase the European character of Arthurian romance both past and present. By working across national philological boundaries, which in the past have tended to segregate the study of Arthurian romance according to language, as well as by exploring primary texts from different vernaculars and the Latin tradition in conjunction with recent theoretical concepts and approaches, this Handbook brings together a pioneering and more complete view of the specifically European context of Arthurian romance, and promotes the more connected study of Arthurian literature across the entirety of its European context.



People and Texts: Relationships in Medieval Literature

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 217 pages

File Size : 39,50 MB

Release : 2007-01-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 940120392X

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Relationships between people and texts form the focus of the studies collected in this book. It was presented to Erik Kooper in recognition of his lifelong efforts to bring together people from universities worldwide. It will be of special interest to scholars and students of Arthurian and Middle English literature, codicologists, scholars interested in medieval Latin sermons and the Gesta Herewardi, in medieval drama and in texts in Middle English, among them Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wynnere and Wastoure, Sir Eglamour, the Tale of Gamelyn, and, in Scots, the metrical chronicle of William Stewart. Articles on early twentieth-century Chaucerian scholarship and on many of the Old French Arthurian romances as well as the writings of Wace and Benoît de Sainte-Maure are also included.



Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature

Author : Larissa Tracy

Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 12,84 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1843843935

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A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.



Medieval English Literature

Author : Beatrice Fannon

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 30,41 MB

Release : 2015-12-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1137469609

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This volume brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading academics. The volume examines the major authors such as Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain Poet, and covers key topics in medieval literature, including gender, class, courtly and popular culture, and religion. The volume seeks to provide a fresh and stimulating guide to medieval literature.



Medieval Welsh Literature and Its European Contexts

Author : Victoria Flood

Publisher : Boydell & Brewer

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 11,97 MB

Release : 2024-07-02

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1843847213

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Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has pioneered our understanding of the links between Welsh and European medieval literature. The essays collected here pay tribute to and reflect that scholarship, by positioning Celtic languages and literatures in relation to broader European movements and conventions. They include studies of texts from medieval Wales, Ireland, and the Welsh March, alongside discussions of continental multicultural literary engagements, understood as a closely related and analogous field of enquiry. Contributors present new investigations of Welsh poetry, from the pre-Conquest poetry of the princes to late-medieval and early Tudor urban subject matters; Welsh Arthuriana and Irish epic; the literature of the Welsh March - including the writings of the Gawain-poet; and the multilingual contexts of medieval and post-medieval Europe, from the Dutch speakers of polyglot medieval Calais to the Romantic poet Shelley's probable ownership of a Welsh Bible.



Arthurian Literature XXV

Author : Elizabeth Archibald

Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 19,46 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1843841711

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The most recent research in matters Arthurian, by leading scholars in the field.



The Medieval Chronicle VII.

Author : Juliana Dresvina

Publisher : Rodopi

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 27,97 MB

Release : 2011-04

Category : History

ISBN : 9401200416

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There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions. The yearbook The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds. The Medieval Chronicle is published in cooperation with the "Medieval Chronicle Society".