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Middle English Romances
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
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The Popularity Of Middle English Romance
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Author : Velma Bourgeois Richmond
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1975
The Popularity Of Middle English Romance written by Velma Bourgeois Richmond and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Middle English romance has elicited throughout the centuries a curious mixture of indifference,hostile apprehension, and contempt that perhaps no other literature--except its most likely offspring, modern best-sellers--has provoked.
Companion To Middle English Romance
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Author : Henk Aertsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
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The Middle English Romances Of The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries Routledge Revivals
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Author : Dieter Mehl
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-10-18
The Middle English Romances Of The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries Routledge Revivals written by Dieter Mehl and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and dominant themes rather than source-material or language.
A Companion To Medieval Popular Romance
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Author : Raluca L. Radulescu
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2009
A Companion To Medieval Popular Romance written by Raluca L. Radulescu and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the Middle Ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre has defied precise definition, its subject matter ranging from tales of chivalric adventure, to saintly women, and monsters that become human. The essays in this collection provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.
Six Middle English Romances
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Author : Maldwyn Mills
language : en
Publisher: London : Dent ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield
Release Date : 1973
Six Middle English Romances written by Maldwyn Mills and has been published by London : Dent ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Literary Criticism categories.
Stylistic And Narrative Structures In The Middle English Romances
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Author : Susan Wittig
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-08-27
Stylistic And Narrative Structures In The Middle English Romances written by Susan Wittig and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical matrix of similar themes and characters. As single narratives, they are thought of as random collections of events loosely structured in chronological succession. Susan Wittig, however, offers evidence that the romances are carefully ordered (although not always consciously so) according to a series of formulaic patterns and that their structures serve as vehicles for certain essential cultural patterns and are important to the preservation of some community-held beliefs. The analysis begins on a stylistic level, and the same theoretical principles applied to the linguistic formulas of the poems also serve as a model for the study of narrative structures. The author finds that there are laws that govern the creation, selection, and arrangement of narrative materials in the romance genre and that act to restrict innovation and control the narrative form. The reasons for this strict control are to be found in the functional relationship of the genre to the culture that produced it. The deep structure of the romance is viewed as a problem-solving pattern that enables the community to mediate important contradictions within its social, economic, and mythic structures. Wittig speculates that these contradictions may lie in the social structures of kinship and marriage and that they have been restructured in the narratives in a “practical” myth: the concept of power gained through the marriage alliance, and the reconciliation of the contradictory notions of marriage for power’s sake and marriage for love’s sake. This advanced, thorough, and completely original study will be valuable to medieval specialists, classicists, linguists, folklorists, and Biblical scholars working in oral-formulaic narrative structure.
Medieval Romance Medieval Contexts
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Author : Michael Staveley Cichon
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2011
Medieval Romance Medieval Contexts written by Michael Staveley Cichon and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Collections categories.
The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the medieval period and explore some of their medieval contexts, deepening our understanding not only of the romances concerned but also of the specific medieval contexts that produced or influenced them. The contexts explored here include traditional literary features such as genre and rhetorical technique and literary-cultural questions of authorship, transmission and readership; but they also extend to such broader intellectual and social contexts as medieval understandings of geography, the physiology of swooning, or the efficacy of baptism. A framing context for the volume is provided by Derek Pearsall's prefatory essay, in which he revisits his seminal 1965 article on the development of Middle English romance. Rhiannon Purdie is Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews; Michael Cichon is Associate Professor of English at St Thomas More College in the University of Saskatchewan. Contributors: Derek Pearsall, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Michael Cichon, Nicholas Perkins, Marianne Ailes, John A. Geck, Phillipa Hardman, Siobhain Bly Calkin, Judith Weiss, Robert Rouse, Yin Liu, Emily Wingfield, Rosalind Field
Middle English Romances
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Author : S. H. A. Shepherd
language : en
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Release Date : 1995
Middle English Romances written by S. H. A. Shepherd and has been published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance.
The Spirit Of Medieval English Popular Romance
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Author : Ad Putter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-06
The Spirit Of Medieval English Popular Romance written by Ad Putter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Middle English popular romances enjoyed a wide appeal 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. This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays is designed to meet the need for a stimulating guide to the genre. 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. Accessible to advanced students of English, this book is also of interest to those working in the field of medieval studies, comparative literature, and popular culture.