The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Radulescu, Raluca; Rikhardsdottir, Sif

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Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429590924
• Artikelnr.: 66653292

Autorenporträt

Raluca Radulescu is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Director of the Centre for Arthurian Studies at Bangor University, Wales, UK. She is currently the elected Vice-President of the International Arthurian Society. Her research and publications focus on all aspects of medieval literature and studies, particularly on Arthurian and non-Arthurian romance, Thomas Malory, gentry studies, chronicles (including the Middle English Brut and genealogies) and manuscript culture. She has published two monographs (2003 and 2013) and eleven collections of co-edited essays, among them Insular Books: Vernacular Manuscript Miscellanies in Medieval Britain (2015), co-ed. with Margaret Connolly. She is currently writing a book on the Middle English Prose Brut and co-editing, with Andrew Lynch, the Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture (CHALC) in 2 volumes. Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland and Head of the Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts. She works on cross-cultural transmission and literary histories, comparative literary theory, gender, literary emotions, and voice in medieval European literature. Her publications include Medieval Translations and Cultural Discourse: The Movement of Texts in England, France and Scandinavia (2012); Emotion in Old Norse: Translations, Voices, Contexts (2017); and most recently the Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre (2019), co-edited with Carolyne Larrington and Massimiliano Bampi. Her co-edited volume Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (with Louise D'Arcens) is forthcoming. She has held Visiting Fellowships or Professorships at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Ca' Foscari University of Venice and St John's College, University of Oxford.

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Medieval English Literature: A trans-European Literary History



Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir



PART I:THE FORMS OF LITERATURE: INTRODUCTION



Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir

1. Orality, Vocality, and Textuality




Karl Reichl




2. Vernacularity




Wendy Scase




3. Books and Materiality




J. R. Mattison and Alexandra Gillespie




4. Form and Genre




Julie Orlemanski



PART II: INSULAR BORDERS AND LINGUISTIC INTERACTIONS: INTRODUCTION



Raluca Radulescu




5. Middle Welsh




Helen Fulton




6. Irish




Aisling Byrne




7. Scottish




Caitlin Flynn




8. Multilingualism




Ad Putter



PART III: LITERARY GATEWAYS: INTRODUCTION

Sif Rikhardsdottir


9. 'Travel' of the Mind via Study: translatio studii et imperii


Elizaveta Strakhov




10. 'Travel' of the Soul via Religiosity: Imaginary and Actual Pilgrimages




Ryan Perry




11. French-Speaking Courts and Literary Dominance in Europe




Keith Busby




12. The Norman Rule




Laura Ashe




13. The Venetian Gateway: Commerce, Plague, Oriental Motifs




Sif Rikhardsdottir




14. Origination and Mediation: Sicily




David Wallace




15. Islamic Pathways and Imaginary Borders




Shirin A. Khanmohamadi




16. Mercantile Networks




Craig E. Bertolet




17. Maps and the Medieval World at Large




Matthew Boyd Goldie



PART IV: MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS AND TRADITIONS: INTRODUCTION



Raluca Radulescu




18. The Endurance of Early English Literary Traditions




Orietta Da Rold




19. Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Chronicle Tradition




Jaclyn Rajsic




20. Marie de France and Middle English Romance




Cory James Rushton


21. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Alliterative Tradition




Lawrence Warner




22. Geoffrey Chaucer




Marion Turner




23. John Gower




Siân Echard




24. William Langland: European Poet?




Marco Nievergelt




25. Hoccleve and Lydgate: Transnationalism and Tradition




Sebastian J. Langdell




26. Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Female Spirituality




Laura Kalas




27. 
    
    The Middle English Lyrics in Their European Context
    
    




Christiania Whitehead




28. Medieval English Drama and Performance




Charlotte Steenbrugge




29. Thomas Malory




Raluca Radulescu




30. Hagiography




Karen A. Winstead



PART V: THE MODERN MIDDLE AGES: INTRODUCTION



Sif Rikhardsdottir




31. Emotion




Andrew Lynch




32. Race




Wan-Chuan Kao




33. Gender/Queer




Laura Saetveit Miles and Samantha Katz Seal




34. Postcolonialism




Patricia Clare Ingham and Abby Ang




35. Ecocriticism




Michael J. Warren




36. Human/Animal




Karl Steel




37. Medievalism

David Matthews