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| Author | : Carol M. Meale |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : History |
| 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 |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 2021-08-05 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Gail Ashton |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2010-04-15 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Michael Johnston |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2014-05 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Piotr Spyra |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2020-05-13 |
| Genre | : 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 |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : 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 | : S. H. A. Shepherd |
| Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 514 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : 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 Staveley Cichon |
| Publisher | : DS Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1843842602 |
The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the medieval period and explore some of their medieval contexts, deepening our understanding not only of the romances concerned but also of the specific medieval contexts that produced or influenced them. The contexts explored here include traditional literary features such as genre and rhetorical technique and literary-cultural questions of authorship, transmission and readership; but they also extend to such broader intellectual and social contexts as medieval understandings of geography, the physiology of swooning, or the efficacy of baptism. A framing context for the volume is provided by Derek Pearsall's prefatory essay, in which he revisits his seminal 1965 article on the development of Middle English romance. Rhiannon Purdie is Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews; Michael Cichon is Associate Professor of English at St Thomas More College in the University of Saskatchewan. Contributors: Derek Pearsall, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Michael Cichon, Nicholas Perkins, Marianne Ailes, John A. Geck, Phillipa Hardman, Siobhain Bly Calkin, Judith Weiss, Robert Rouse, Yin Liu, Emily Wingfield, Rosalind Field
| Author | : Jane Bliss |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1843841592 |
A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance.
| Author | : Nicola McDonald |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2004-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780719063190 |
Pulp fictions of medieval England comprises ten essays on individual popular romances; with a focus on romances that, while enormously popular in the Middle Ages, have been neglected by modern scholarship. Each essay provides valuable introductory material, and there is a sustained argument across the contributions that the romances invite innovative, exacting and theoretically charged analysis. However, the essays do not support a single, homogenous reading of popular romance: the authors work with assumptions and come to conclusions about issues as fundamental as the genre's aesthetic codes, its political and cultural ideologies, and its historical consciousness that are different and sometimes opposed. Nicola McDonald's collection and the romances it investigates, are crucial to our understanding of the aesthetics of medieval narrative and to the ideologies of gender and sexuality, race, religion, political formations, social class, ethics, morality and national identity with which those narratives engage.
