Scott Chaucer And Medieval Romance
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Author | : Jerome Mitchell |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813186404 |
While the influence of Shakespeare on Sir Walter Scott has long been recognized, the importance of medieval literature in shaping his creative imagination has never before been examined in depth. Jerome Mitchell's new book fills this significant gap through a wide-ranging study of Scott's indebtedness to Chaucer and to medieval romance, especially the Middle English romances, for story-patterns, motifs, character types, style and structure, and detail. Mitchell establishes more completely and accurately than any previous critic the extent of Scott's knowledge of medieval literature. His examination of Scott's poetry, especially the long narrative poems, demonstrates their debt to Chaucer and medieval romance. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of the Waverley Novels. Scott's debt to medieval literature, Mitchell shows, was vast, profound, and elemental; it is the single most important source area for the Waverley Novels, their warp and woof. Moreover, it is probably the key to Scott's immense appeal—the very dimension which enabled him to cast an everlasting spell on his contemporaries, even on such great men as Byron and Goethe, and which has charmed generations of readers to the present day. This pioneering book, based on extensive research in Scotland, including Sir Walter Scott's personal library, sheds new light on the narrative substance and texture of Scott's poems and novels. Both the general reader and the serious student will derive from it a more informed appreciation of Scott's impressive achievement.
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Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Language, Modern |
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Nicholas Perkins |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literature, Medieval |
ISBN | : 9781851242955 |
From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great's global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages, and still resonate today. This book provides an engaging, scholarly and richly illustrated guide to medieval romance and its continuing influence on literature and art. Romance's conjunctions of chivalric violence, love and piety, and its openness to the miraculous, monstrous or bizarre mark it out as the most fertile narrative form of the Western Middle Ages. This book examines the development of romance as a literary genre, its place in medieval culture, and the scribes and readers who copied, owned and commented on romance books - from magnificent illuminated manuscripts to personal notebooks and chance survivals. It also explores the complex anatomy of human desire in romance, as portrayed by writers including Dante, Chaucer and Thomas Malory. Medieval romance was hugely popular after the Middle Ages. Shakespeare, Spenser and Walter Scott imbibed its motifs, Mark Twain parodied them, and the Pre-Raphaelites based an aesthetic movement around them. The Romance of the Middle Ages traces the influence of the genre to the twentieth century and beyond, encompassing the stories of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling, the Jedi knights of Star Wars and Monty Python's Knights who say 'Ni!'.
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Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Karl Heinz Göller |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Civilization, Medieval |
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Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Carol M. Meale |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1843843757 |
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements. Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; the late Derek Pearsall was Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of York. Contributors: Nicolas Barker, J.A. Burrow, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, Susanna Fein, Jane Griffiths, Lotte Hellinga, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Richard Linenthal, Carol M. Meale, Orietta Da Rold, John Scattergood, Kathleen L. Scott, Toshiyuki Takamiya, John J. Thompson.
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Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Bege K. Bowers |
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Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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"A compilation of the bibliographical information accumulated over eleven years (1986-1996) in the Annual Journal of the New Chaucer Society, Studies in the Age of Chaucer" -- Preface.