Scott Chaucer And Medieval Romance
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Scott Chaucer And Medieval Romance
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Author : Jerome Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-10-21
Scott Chaucer And Medieval Romance written by Jerome Mitchell and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
While the influence of Shakespeare on Sir Walter Scott has long been recognized, the importance of medieval literature in shaping his creative imagination has never before been examined in depth. Jerome Mitchell's new book fills this significant gap through a wide-ranging study of Scott's indebtedness to Chaucer and to medieval romance, especially the Middle English romances, for story-patterns, motifs, character types, style and structure, and detail. Mitchell establishes more completely and accurately than any previous critic the extent of Scott's knowledge of medieval literature. His examination of Scott's poetry, especially the long narrative poems, demonstrates their debt to Chaucer and medieval romance. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of the Waverley Novels. Scott's debt to medieval literature, Mitchell shows, was vast, profound, and elemental; it is the single most important source area for the Waverley Novels, their warp and woof. Moreover, it is probably the key to Scott's immense appeal—the very dimension which enabled him to cast an everlasting spell on his contemporaries, even on such great men as Byron and Goethe, and which has charmed generations of readers to the present day. This pioneering book, based on extensive research in Scotland, including Sir Walter Scott's personal library, sheds new light on the narrative substance and texture of Scott's poems and novels. Both the general reader and the serious student will derive from it a more informed appreciation of Scott's impressive achievement.
Magic In Medieval Romance
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Author : Michelle Sweeney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Magic In Medieval Romance written by Michelle Sweeney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
This book examines the roles of magic in medieval romance. Magic's crucial function in the romances may be established by studying the diverse works of Chrétien de Troyes, the Lais of Marie de France, the romances of Sir Tristrem, Syr Launfal, Ywain & Gawain and Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale. Romance authors used magical trials to explore a character' moral status and position on issues important to the community, such as when to maintain loyalty to a king or to a lover. Romance authors were able to encourage the exploration of human motivation by using magic to create, or expose a character' morally ambiguous situation. This technique enabled a broader discussion of social issues than would have been allowed in situations constrained by the boundaries of Christian dogmatism. In order to understand the function of magic in medieval romance, it is necessary to appreciate its function in the medieval world. Magic is coupled to some of the most important works of the medieval age, such as the theological texts of Augustine and Aquinas, the histories of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace, as well playing a significant role in medicine and the nascent studies of science. Romance writers capitalised upon the associations between magic and these fields of study to create a more serious framework for their texts. The romances could then operate beyond the level of simple entertainment and provide the interested audience with social commentary, moral analysis and material for thought on a wide variety of issues.
The Romance Of The Middle Ages
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Author : Nicholas Perkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Romance Of The Middle Ages written by Nicholas Perkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literature, Medieval categories.
From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great's global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages, and still resonate today. This book provides an engaging, scholarly and richly illustrated guide to medieval romance and its continuing influence on literature and art. Romance's conjunctions of chivalric violence, love and piety, and its openness to the miraculous, monstrous or bizarre mark it out as the most fertile narrative form of the Western Middle Ages. This book examines the development of romance as a literary genre, its place in medieval culture, and the scribes and readers who copied, owned and commented on romance books - from magnificent illuminated manuscripts to personal notebooks and chance survivals. It also explores the complex anatomy of human desire in romance, as portrayed by writers including Dante, Chaucer and Thomas Malory. Medieval romance was hugely popular after the Middle Ages. Shakespeare, Spenser and Walter Scott imbibed its motifs, Mark Twain parodied them, and the Pre-Raphaelites based an aesthetic movement around them. The Romance of the Middle Ages traces the influence of the genre to the twentieth century and beyond, encompassing the stories of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling, the Jedi knights of Star Wars and Monty Python's Knights who say 'Ni!'.
Enchanted Ground
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Author : Arthur Johnston
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-01-13
Enchanted Ground written by Arthur Johnston and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The beginnings of modern literary scholarship in Britain are studied in this volume, which traces the emergence between about 1760 and 1810 in the work of Richard Hurd, Thomas Percy, Thomas Warton, Joseph Ritson, George Ellis, and Sir Walter Scott of a serious scholarly approach to the English metrical romances of the middle ages. These scholars, however, were not concerned solely with the rediscovery and editing of the original texts which two centuries of growing antiquarian research had ignored. Almost without exception men of letters themselves, they desired also to recover the 'world of fine fabling' in which the classical temper of the preceding age had preferred the virtues of 'good sense', and they consciously put their discoveries to the service of modern poetry, or urged that they should be so used. The consequences of this were far-reaching, and as he considers in detail the individual achievements of his principal subjects Dr Johnston does not neglect to bring out the nature and importance of the contributions they made to the general culture and literature of their own day and of the nineteenth century.
The Beginnings Of Medieval Romance
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Author : Dennis Howard Green
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-06-27
The Beginnings Of Medieval Romance written by Dennis Howard Green and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Medieval Romance Themes And Approaches
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Author : John E. Stevens
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 1974
Medieval Romance Themes And Approaches written by John E. Stevens and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Literary Criticism categories.
A fine analysis of the enduring qualities of medieval romance, which Mr. Stevens suggests are qualities found in good fiction of any era. E. Talbot Donaldson"
Literary Value And Social Identity In The Canterbury Tales
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Author : Robert J. Meyer-Lee
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-24
Literary Value And Social Identity In The Canterbury Tales written by Robert J. Meyer-Lee and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-24 with History categories.
Introduction: Canterbury tales IV-V and literary value -- Clerk -- Merchant -- Squire -- Franklin.
South Atlantic Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
South Atlantic Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Language, Modern categories.
Scottish Literary Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Scottish Literary Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with English literature categories.
Thinking Medieval Romance
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Author : Katherine C. Little
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-11
Thinking Medieval Romance written by Katherine C. Little and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11 with categories.
Theoretically savvy and polemical arguments about a broad range of French, Middle English, and Mediterranean romances, that will revise scholars' and students' understanding of what medieval romances are and, more importantly, what they do to and for their readers.