Medieval Narratives And Modern Narratology
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Author | : Evelyn Birge Vitz |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2004-09-23 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2002-08-16 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2015-05-13 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843840398 |
A survey of an investigation into whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.
Author | : Jonas Grethlein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2023-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009339591 |
Argues compellingly for a new approach to ancient narrative which goes beyond narratology and is alert to its specific logic.
Author | : Genevieve Liveley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192524437 |
This volume explores the extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of narrative, aiming not to argue that modern narratologies simply present 'old wine in new wineskins', but rather to identify the diachronic affinities shared between ancient and modern stories about storytelling. By recognizing that modern narratologists bring a particular expertise to bear upon ancient literary theory, and by interrogating ancient and modern narratologies through the mutually imbricating dynamics of their reception, it seeks to arrive at a better understanding of both. Each chapter selects a key moment in the history of narratology on which to focus, providing an overview of significant phases before offering detailed analyses of core theories and texts, from the Russian formalists and Chicago school neo-Aristotelians, through the prestructuralists, structuralists, and poststructuralists, up to the latest unnatural and antimimetic narratologists. The reception history that thus unfolds offers some remarkable plot twists and yields valuable insights into the interpretation of some notoriously difficult ancient works. Plato in the Republic is unmasked as an unreliable narrator and theorist, while Aristotle's On Poets reveals a rare glimpse of the philosopher putting narrative theory into practice in the role of storyteller. Horace's Ars Poetica and the works of ancient scholia by critics and commentators evince a rhetorically conceived poetics and sophisticated reader-response-based narratology which indicate a keen interest in audience affect and cognition - anticipating the cognitive turn in narratology's most recent postclassical phase.
Author | : D. Punday |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2003-06-13 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 1327 |
Release | : 2010-06-10 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2000-06-08 |
Genre | : 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.