Performing Medieval Narrative
Author | : Evelyn Birge Vitz |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843840398 |
A survey of an investigation into whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.
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Author | : Evelyn Birge Vitz |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843840398 |
A survey of an investigation into whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.
Author | : Elina Gertsman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1351537377 |
Taking a fresh look at the interconnections between medieval images, texts, theater, and practices of viewing, reading and listening, this explicitly interdisciplinary volume explores various manifestations of performance and meanings of performativity in the Middle Ages. The contributors - from their various perspectives as scholars of art history, religion, history, literary studies, theater studies, music and dance - combine their resources to reassess the complexity of expressions and definitions of medieval performance in a variety of different media. Among the topics considered are interconnections between ritual and theater; dynamics of performative readings of illuminated manuscripts, buildings and sculptures; linguistic performances of identity; performative models of medieval spirituality; social and political spectacles encoded in ceremonies; junctures between spatial configurations of the medieval stage and mnemonic practices used for meditation; performances of late medieval music that raise questions about the issues of historicity, authenticity, and historical correctness in performance; and tensions inherent in the very notion of a medieval dance performance.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9401204314 |
For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideological grounding; texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance. Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read reception of its written text. The current volume of essays examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter: from the “performed” life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches, to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of public performance and the textual origins and subsequent representation of those performances.
Author | : Hans Bekker-Nielsen |
Publisher | : University Press of Southern Denmark |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Odense University on 20-21 November 1978.
Author | : Margaret Schlauch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Suzanne Fleischman |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780292780903 |
. . . Fleischman's book takes the study of medieval literature to new hermeneutic horizons. . . . Furthermore, through the use of sociolinguistics she connects the modern and medieval worlds in a way that will make the medieval world less alien to us, and thus her perspective gives us another means by which we can make medieval literature more relevant to our students. --Studies in the Age of Chaucer In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language. Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation for all narratological study, since it offers insight into how narratives are constructed in their most primary context: everyday speech. She uses a linguistic model designed for natural narrative to explicate the organizational structure of artificial narrative texts, primarily from the Middle Ages and the postmodern period, whose seemingly idiosyncratic use of tenses has long perplexed those who study them. Fleischman develops a functional theory of tense and aspect in narrative that accounts for the wide variety of functions--pragmatic as well as grammatical--that these two categories of grammar are called upon to perform in the linguistic economy of a narration.
Author | : Piero Boitani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1986-07-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521311496 |
In this detailed study of English narrative verse the author describes and analyses the undisputed masterpieces of narrative (such as the works of the Gawain poet, Langland, Gower and Chaucer), as well as anonymous romances and specimens of religious and comic narrative which form the background to more well-known poems.
Author | : John Stevens |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1986-10-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521245074 |
This book examines the relation of words and music in England and France during the three centuries following the Norman Conquest. The basic material of the study includes the chansons of the troubadours and trouvères and the varied Latin songs of the period. In addition to these 'lyric' forms, the author discusses the relations of music and poetry in dance-song, in narrative and in the ecclesiastical drama. Professor Stevens examines the ready-made, often unconscious, and misleading assumptions we bring to the study and performance of early music. In particular he affirms the importance of Number, in more than one sense, as a clue to the 'aesthetic' of the greater part of repertoire, to the relation of words and melody. and to the baffling problem of their rhythmic interpretation. This is the first wide-ranging study of words and music in this period in any language. It will be essential reading for scholars of the music and the literature of medieval Europe and will provide a basic and comprehensive introduction to the repertoire for students.
Author | : Ardis Butterfield |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781910887134 |
Insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle Ages is granted by a host of texts: liturgical manuals; manuscripts of epic poetry, vernacular lyric, and music; paintings, and many more. Adopting a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-literary studies, liturgical studies, iconography, and musicology-this collection of essays reveals the two-fold performative nature of such texts: they document, mediate, or prefigure acts of performance, while at the same time taking on performative roles themselves by generating additional layers of meaning. Focussing on acts, authors, and receptive processes of performance, the authors demonstrate the significance of the performative to the culture of the High and Late Middle Ages (c.1000-1500), from chant to Chaucer, from Scandinavia to Imperial Augsburg.
Author | : Susannah Crowder |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2018-08-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526106418 |
This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the ‘exceptional’ staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Exploring the lives and performances of these previously anonymous women, the book brings the elusive figure of the female performer to centre stage. It integrates new approaches to drama, gender and patronage with a performance methodology to explore how the women of fifteenth-century Metz enacted varied kinds of performance that extended beyond the theatre. For example, decades before the 1468 play, Joan of Arc returned from the grave in the form of an impersonator named Claude. Offering a new paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture, Performing women is essential reading for scholars of pre-modern women and drama, and is also relevant to lecturers and students of late-medieval performance, religion and memory.