The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Putter, Ad; Gilbert, Jane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays provides a stimulating guide to the Middle English popular romances. These were very popular in later medieval Britain and even today students of medieval literature will encounter examples of the genre, such as Sir Orfeo, Sir Tristrem, and Sir Launfal. Each essay introduces one popular romance, setting it in its literary and historical contexts, and develops an original interpretation that reveals the possibilities that popular romances offer for modern literary criticism. A substantial introduction by the editors discusses the production and transmission of popular romances in the Middle Ages, and considers the modern reception of popular romance and the interpretative challenges offered by new theoretical approaches.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317885559
• Artikelnr.: 41066686

Autorenporträt

Ad Putter is Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Bristol, and also works for the Centre for Medieval Studies at Bristol. He is author of various books and articles on medieval literature, including An Introduction to the Gawain poet also published by Longman. Jane Gilbert is Lecturer in French at University College London. She is the author of several articles on medieval French and English romances.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Notes on references and abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Lai le Freine: The Female Foundling and the Prolem of Romance
Genre
Chapter 2 Lanval to Sir Laurifal: A Story Becomes Popular
Chapter 3 The Tale ef Gamelyn: Class Warfare and the Embarrassments of
Genre
Chhapter 4 The Romance Hypothetical: Lordship and the Saracens in Sir
Isumbras
Chapter 5 Violence, Narrative and Proper Name: Sir Degare, 'The Tale of Sir
Gareth of Orkney', and the Folie Tristan d'OxfOrd
Chapter 6 Loving Beasts: The Romance of William ef Paleme
Chapter 7: The Narrative Logic of Emare
Chapter 8 Tiie Seege ef Troye: 'ff or wham was wakened al this wo'?
Chapter 9 Romance and Its Discontents in Eger and Grime
Chapter 10 From Beyond the Grave: Darkness at Noon in Tiie Awnfyrs qff
Arthure
Chapter 11 Gender, Oaths and Ambiguity in Sir Tristrem and Beroul's Roman
de Tristan
Chapter 12 Sir Difeo: Madness and Gender
bliography
Notes on contributors
Index