Romance Rewritten (eBook, PDF)

The Evolution of Middle English Romance. A Tribute to Helen Cooper
Redaktion: Archibald, Elizabeth; Saunders, Corinne; Leitch, Megan G

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Produktbeschreibung

New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation of medieval romance.

The essays here reconsider the protean nature of Middle English romance. The contributors examine both the cultural unity of romance and its many variations, reiterations and reimaginings, including its contexts and engagements with other discourses and forms, as they were "rewritten" during the Middle Ages and beyond. Ranging across popular, anonymous English and courtly romances, and taking in the works of Chaucer and Arthurian romance (rarely treated together), in connection with continental sources and analogues, the chapters probe this fluid and creative genre to ask just how comfortable, and how flexible, are its nature and aims? How were Middle English romances rewritten toaccommodate contemporary concerns and generic expectations? What can attention to narrative techniques and conventional gestures reveal about the reassurances romances offer, or the questions they ask? How do romances' central concerns with secular ideals and conduct intersect with spiritual priorities? And how are romances transformed or received in later periods? The volume is also a tribute to the significance and influence of the work of Professor Helen Cooper on romance.

Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English Studies at Durham University; Megan G. Leitch is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University; Corinne Saunders is Professor of English andCo-Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University.

Contributors: Elizabeth Archibald, Julia Boffey, Christopher Cannon, Neil Cartlidge, Miriam Edlich-Muth, A.S.G. Edwards, Marcel Elias, Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch, Jill Mann, Marco Nievergelt, Ad Putter, Corinne Saunders, Barry Windeatt, R.F. Yeager

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787443341
• Artikelnr.: 63205523

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Middle English Romance: The Motifs and the Critics
Medieval Romance Mischief
Neil Cartlidge Rewriting Chivalric Encounters: Cultural Anxieties and Social Critique in the Fourteenth Century
Marcel Elias Malory's Comedy
Christopher Cannon Beginning with the Ending: Narrative Techniques and their Significance in Chaucer's Knight's Tale
Jill Mann The Riddle of 'Apollonius': 'A Bok for King Richardes Sake'
Robert F. Yeager Malory and the Post
Vulgate Cycle
Elizabeth Archibald Towards a Gestural Lexicon of Medieval English Romance
Barry A Windeatt Giving Freely in Sir Cleges: the Economy of Salvation and the Gift of Romance
Marco Nievergelt From Magic to Miracle: Reframing Chevalere Assigne
Miriam Edlich
Muth Lifting the Veil: Voices, Visions and Destiny in Malory's Morte Darthur
Corinne Saunders The Intelligence of The Court of Love
Ad Putter The Squire of Low Degree and the Penumbra of Romance Narrative in the Early Sixteenth Century
Julia Boffey The Squire of Low Degree and the Penumbra of Romance Narrative in the Early Sixteenth Century
A S G Edwards Contested Chivalry: Youth at War in Walter Scott and Charlotte M. Yonge
Andrew Lynch