Performing Medieval Narrative
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Performing Medieval Narrative
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Author : Evelyn Birge Vitz
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2005
Performing Medieval Narrative written by Evelyn Birge Vitz and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
A survey of an investigation into whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.
Acts And Texts
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Author : Laurie Postlewate
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2007
Acts And Texts written by Laurie Postlewate and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideological grounding; texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance. Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read reception of its written text. The current volume of essays examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter: from the "performed" life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches, to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of public performance and the textual origins and subsequent representation of those performances.
Tense And Narrativity
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Author : Suzanne Fleischman
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22
Tense And Narrativity written by Suzanne Fleischman 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 2010-07-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language. Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation for all narratological study, since it offers insight into how narratives are constructed in their most primary context: everyday speech. She uses a linguistic model designed for "natural" narrative to explicate the organizational structure of "artificial" narrative texts, primarily from the Middle Ages and the postmodern period, whose seemingly idiosyncratic use of tenses has long perplexed those who study them. Fleischman develops a functional theory of tense and aspect in narrative that accounts for the wide variety of functions—pragmatic as well as grammatical—that these two categories of grammar are called upon to perform in the linguistic economy of a narration.
Visualizing Medieval Performance
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Author : Elina Gertsman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Visualizing Medieval Performance written by Elina Gertsman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Performing Arts categories.
Taking a fresh look at the interconnections between medieval images, texts, theater, and practices of viewing, reading and listening, this explicitly interdisciplinary volume explores various manifestations of performance and meanings of performativity in the Middle Ages. The contributors - from their various perspectives as scholars of art history, religion, history, literary studies, theater studies, music and dance - combine their resources to reassess the complexity of expressions and definitions of medieval performance in a variety of different media. Among the topics considered are interconnections between ritual and theater; dynamics of performative readings of illuminated manuscripts, buildings and sculptures; linguistic performances of identity; performative models of medieval spirituality; social and political spectacles encoded in ceremonies; junctures between spatial configurations of the medieval stage and mnemonic practices used for meditation; performances of late medieval music that raise questions about the issues of historicity, authenticity, and historical correctness in performance; and tensions inherent in the very notion of a medieval dance performance.
Medieval Narrative
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Medieval Narrative written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with categories.
Medieval Narratives And Modern Narratology
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Author : Evelyn Birge Vitz
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1989
Medieval Narratives And Modern Narratology written by Evelyn Birge Vitz and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
This is a very interesting collection of topics that centers on critical methodologies and the central problems of medieval alterity.
Performance And The Middle English Romance
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Author : Linda Marie Zaerr
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2012
Performance And The Middle English Romance written by Linda Marie Zaerr and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.
Structure In Medieval Narrative
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Author : William W. Ryding
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Structure In Medieval Narrative written by William W. Ryding and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Poet Heroines In Medieval French Narrative
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Author : B. Findley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-11-29
Poet Heroines In Medieval French Narrative written by B. Findley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing.
Medieval Humour
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Author : Kleio Pethainou
language : en
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Release Date : 2023-03-01
Medieval Humour written by Kleio Pethainou and has been published by Trivent Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-01 with Art categories.
Simultaneously pervasive and evasive, rebellious and oppressive, transgressive and socially specific, humour is a vast and interdisciplinary field of research. Seeking to rethink this quintessentially human expression, this volume is bringing together established and emerging directions of medieval humour research. Each contribution explores different artistic expressions, receptions and functions of humour and identifies a series of problems in researching humour historically. Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions dissects humour in art and thought, literature and drama, society and culture, contributing to a deeper understanding of our cultural past.