Author : Evelyn Birge Vitz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814787663
This is a very interesting collection of topics that centers on critical methodologies and the central problems of medieval alterity.
Author : Tony Davenport
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191587986
An introduction to the variety of medieval narrative, intended both for students and more general readers who already know some of the classics of the Middle Ages, such as Beowulf, the Decameron and The Canterbury Tales,, and who wish to venture further. Medieval definitions and theories of narrative are considered in relation to modern narratology and the major medieval types of narrative are discussed. The perspective in this book is mainly English, with Chaucer as a central figure, but it refers to a range of well-known European texts and writers, such as Marie de France, Cretien de Troyes, the Niebelungenlied, the Poem of the Cid, Dante and Boccaccio.
Author : E. Scala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2002-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230107567
Absent Narratives is a book about the defining difference between medieval and modern stories. In chapters devoted to the major writers of the late medieval period - Chaucer, Gower, the Gawain -poet and Malory - it presents and then analyzes a set of unique and unnoticed phenomena in medieval narrative, namely the persistent appearance of missing stories: stories implied, alluded to, or fragmented by a larger narrative. Far from being trivial digressions or passing curiosities, these absent narratives prove central to the way these medieval works function and to why they have affected readers in particular ways. Traditionally unseen, ignored, or explained away by critics, absent narratives offer a valuable new strategy for reading medieval texts and the historically specific textual culture in which they were written.
Author : C. Schrock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137447818
Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The first of its kind, this study traces this widely used narrative tradition to Augustine's two great histories: Confessions and City of God .
Author : Evelyn Birge Vitz
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843840398
This book provides the first comprehensive study of the performance of medieval narrative, using examples from England and the Continent and a variety of genres to examine the crucial question of whether - and how - medieval narratives were indeed intended for performance. Moving beyond the familiar dichotomy between oral and written literature, the various contributions emphasize the range and power of medieval performance traditions, and demonstrate that knowledge of the modes and means of performance is crucial for appreciating medieval narratives. The book is divided into four main parts, with each essay engaging with a specific issue or work, relating it to larger questions about performance. It first focuses on representations of the art of medieval performers of narrative. It then examines relationships between narrative performances and the material books that inspired, recorded, or represented them. The next section studies performance features inscribed in texts and the significance of considering performability. The volume concludes with contributions by present-day professional performers who bring medieval narratives to life for contemporary audiences. Topics covered include orality, performance, storytelling, music, drama, the material book, public reading, and court life.
Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1009339591
Argues compellingly for a new approach to ancient narrative which goes beyond narratology and is alert to its specific logic.
Author : D. Punday
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2003-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1403981655
Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored human corporeality. As this book shows, attention to the body raises uncomfortable questions about the historicity of basic narrative concepts like character, plot, and narration - questions that critics would often prefer to ignore. Daniel Punday argues that narrative itself is a concept constructed by modern-day critics based on assumptions about identity, desire, movement and place that depend on modern ways of thinking about corporeality.
Author : David Herman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1327 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134458398
The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a basic human strategy for coming to terms with time, process, and change. However, the very predominance of narrative as a focus of interest across multiple disciplines makes it imperative for scholars, teachers, and students to have access to a comprehensive reference resource.
Author : Yitzhak Hen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2000-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521639989
This is the first book to investigate how people in the early middle ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were - sometimes - subtly reshaped for present purposes.
Author : A. W. Strouse
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0823294773
Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise [his] lips”? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer’s Wife of Bath actually—as an early glossator figures her—a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubated The Waste Land inside of his uncut member? In this little book, A. W. Strouse excavates a poetics of the foreskin, uncovering how Patristic theologies of circumcision came to structure medieval European literary aesthetics. Following the writings of Saint Paul, “circumcision” and “uncircumcision” become key terms for theorizing language—especially the dichotomies between the mere text and its extended exegesis, between brevity and longwindedness, between wisdom and folly. Form and Foreskin looks to three works: a peculiar story by Saint Augustine about a boy with the long foreskin; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. By examining literary scenes of cutting and stretching, Strouse exposes how Patristic treatments of circumcision queerly govern medieval poetics.
