Stylistic And Narrative Structures In The Middle English Romances
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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.
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 : 2014-10-01
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 2014-10-01 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.
Language And Piety In Middle English Romance
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Author : Roger Dalrymple
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2000
Language And Piety In Middle English Romance written by Roger Dalrymple and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
Analysis of pious formulae across a range of medieval romance, illuminating their stylistic purpose.
Middle English Poetry
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Author : Alastair J. Minnis
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2001
Middle English Poetry written by Alastair J. Minnis and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Collections categories.
Material on the production and transmission of medieval literature and the early formation of the canon of English poetry. A wide range of poets is covered - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, the Gawain poet, Langland, and Lydgate, along with the translator of Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis. The Turnament of Totenham is read in termsof theory of the carnivalesque and popular culture, and major contributions are made to current linguistic, editorial and codicological controversies. Going beyond the Middle Ages, the book also considers the sixteenth-century reception of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Post-Reformation reading of Lydgate. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the production and transmission of medieval literature, and in the early formation of the canon of English poetry. Contributors: JULIA BOFFEY, J.A. BURROW, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, MARTHA DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, A.S.G. EDWARDS, KATE D. HARRIS, S.S. HUSSEY, KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON, CAROL M. MEALE, LINNE R. MOONEY, CHARLOTTE C. MORSE, V.I.J. SCATTERGOOD, ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA, ESTELLE STUBBS, JOHN THOMPSON.
Studies In Medieval English Romances
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Author : Derek Brewer
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 1988
Studies In Medieval English Romances written by Derek Brewer and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with English literature categories.
Interest in the literary form of romance has greatly increased over the past few years and begins to equal that of tragedy. Romance is seen as a potent model of life equal but opposite to tragedy. The modern widespread realisation that art its most powerful is not necessarily a direct realistic 'imitation' or mimesis of ordinary life, together with the accompanying interest in fantasy, folktale and science fiction, have all opened out new vistas of literary experience.
Middle English Romances
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Author : A. C. Gibbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Middle English Romances written by A. C. Gibbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with English poetry categories.
"This volume comprises a series of extracts from Medieval Romances. Critical attention is focused upon a significant but unwieldy body of Middle English writings by offering examples of them at their best form. Since the excerpts are chosen in accordance with a governing critical concept elaborated in the editor's Introduction, the reader is able to relate form to function, representative to type, in a coherent and worthwhile manner. The book provides a constructive Introduction which takes full account of the best and most recent opinions of scholars on the subject of "Romance." It is also alive to the needs of the modern reader, assuming that the search for understanding and historical orientation does not obscure but rather enhances enjoyment of the poetry." -Publisher.
English Medieval Narrative In The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries
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Author : Piero Boitani
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1986-07-31
English Medieval Narrative In The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries written by Piero Boitani 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 1986-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this detailed study of English narrative verse the author describes and analyses the undisputed masterpieces of narrative (such as the works of the Gawain poet, Langland, Gower and Chaucer), as well as anonymous romances and specimens of religious and comic narrative which form the background to more well-known poems.
Routledge Revivals Medieval England 1998
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Author : Paul E. Szarmach
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Routledge Revivals Medieval England 1998 written by Paul E. Szarmach 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 History categories.
First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.
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.
Four Middle English Romances
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Author : Harriet Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Release Date : 2006-11-01
Four Middle English Romances written by Harriet Hudson and has been published by Medieval Institute Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour of Artois, and Sir Tryamour are important works in a major literary development of the fourteenth century: the flourishing of Middle English popular romance. These four narratives were among the most popular; all survive in multiple manuscripts and continued to circulate in prints through the sixteenth century. All were composed in the northeast Midlands in the fifty years between 1325 and 1375, and they appear together in several manuscripts. The tale the romances tell-of exiled queens, orphaned children, and penitent fathers-was one of the most prevalent medieval stories. Sometimes called the Constance/Eustace legend (after two well-known pious versions), its influence can be seen in numerous romances.