Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108479308
This new Companion introduces the most important medieval vernacular literary genre in Britain and continental Europe.
Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521556873
This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.
Author : Larry Scanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521841674
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
Author : Candace Barrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107180783
A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.
Author : Elizabeth Archibald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521860598
Covers the evolution of the legend over time and analyses the major themes that have emerged.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107493730
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Author : Simon Gaunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827874
Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissance. The essays are grounded in detailed analysis of canonical texts and authors such as the Chanson de Roland, the Roman de la Rose, Villon's Testament, Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut, Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. Featuring a chronology and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for students and scholars in other fields wishing to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition.
Author : Carolyn Dinshaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521796385
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.
Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494648
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.
Author : Raluca L. Radulescu
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 184384270X
Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the Middle Ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre has defied precise definition, its subject matter ranging from tales of chivalric adventure, to saintly women, and monsters that become human. The essays in this collection provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.
