Chivalric Romances
| Author | : Lee C. Ramsey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
Chivalric Romances
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Floridoro
| Author | : Moderata Fonte |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 525 |
| Release | : 2007-11-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0226256790 |
The first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, Floridoro imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristics—dark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceresses—Floridoro is the story of the two greatest knights of a bygone age: the handsome Floridoro, who risks everything for love, and the beautiful Risamante, who helps women in distress while on a quest for her inheritance. Throughout, Moderata Fonte (1555–92) vehemently defends women’s capacity to rival male prowess in traditionally male-dominated spheres. And her open criticism of women’s lack of education is echoed in the plights of various female characters who must depend on unreliable men. First published in 1581, Floridoro remains a vivacious and inventive narrative by a singular poet.
Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance
| Author | : Alex Davis |
| Publisher | : DS Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780859917773 |
A reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and what it says about contemporary attitudes to the medieval.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance
| Author | : Roberta L. Krueger |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2000-06-22 |
| Genre | : 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.
Iberian Chivalric Romance
| Author | : Leticia Alvarez Recio |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
| ISBN | : 1487539002 |
"This collection of original essays examines the publication and reception history of sixteenth-century Iberian books of chivalry in English translation and explores the impact of that literary corpus on Elizabethan culture as well as its connections with other contemporary genres such as native English fiction, chronicle, and epistolary writing. The essays focus mainly on Anthony Munday's work as the leading translator as well as the two main Spanish sixteenth-century cycles-Le., Amadis and Palmerin-from a variety of critical approaches, including cultural studies, book history and reception, material history, translation, post-colonial criticism, and early modern Qender studies."--
Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain
| Author | : Amanda Hopkins |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 184384379X |
An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and alchemical treatises.
The Exploitations of Medieval Romance
| Author | : Laura Ashe |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1843842122 |
As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe
Romances of Chivalry in the Spanish Golden Age
| Author | : Daniel Eisenberg |
| Publisher | : Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
Eisenberg's book dealing with the Spanish Romances of chivalry, the most popular fiction of the Spanish Renaissance, and the preferred reading of Don Quijote, is finally back in print. Originally published in 1982, this important work has been out of print for a number of years. "Dan Eisenberg's work is our best source of knowledge about the Spanish romances of chivalry." -Sydney P. Cravens Texas Tech University "Daniel Eisenberg tiene un profundo conocimiento de los secretos de los libros de caballermas." -Martmn de Riquer Real Academia Espaqola
The Book of Arthur
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Konecky & Konecky |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2004-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781568524986 |
Some of the most fascinating and exciting stories about King Arthur and his knights have been almost completely overlooked. The Book of Arthur offers an extensive selection of these forgotten tales with an introduction detailing their origins and their place in the Arthurian tradition.
