Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace write by Edward E Foster. This book was released on 2008-12-31. Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace are classified by Lillian Herlands Hornstein as Legendary Romances of Didactic Intent. Amis, produced in the East Midlands in the late thirteenth century was well known throughout Europe, but according to Edward Foster, the Middle English version is especially lively, entertaining, and perplexing.Robert of Cisyle was also a common and popular story. Like the medieval tragedies recounted in Chaucer's The Monk's Tale, it recounts the story of the fall of a great man and his ultimate triumph once he has been thoroughly humiliated.The stress in Sir Amadace is on material things: Amadace's original plight is material, his succor of the unburied knight is material, the white knight's assistance to him is material, his redemption is material . . . , and his ultimate happiness is material. - from the Introduction
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500 write by Peter Brown. This book was released on 2009-10-26. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature. Stresses the importance of constructing contexts for reading literature. Explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialogue with other cultural products, including the literature of other countries, manuscripts and religion. Includes close readings of frequently-studied texts, including texts by Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Hoccleve. Confronts some of the controversies that exercise students of medieval literature, such as those connected with literary theory, love, and chivalry and war.
Four Romances of England
Four Romances of England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four Romances of England write by Graham Drake. This book was released on 1999-04-01. Four Romances of England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fitted with ample introductions, notes, and glosses, this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance. This excellent edition includes King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston. These romances all deal with the Matter of Britain-that is, they celebrate action and adventure tales taking place in England. Featuring all the hallmarks of a good romance, these works include disinherited nobles, thrilling battles, love stories, dragons, and all sorts of marvels and adventures. Spanning the mid thirteenth to the late fourteenth century, these works provide an excellent cross section of the wonderful world of Middle English romances featuring the escapades of their fantastical countrymen.
Stanzaic Guy of Warwick
Stanzaic Guy of Warwick - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stanzaic Guy of Warwick write by Alison Wiggins. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Stanzaic Guy of Warwick available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The poem, which survives only in the Auchinleck Manuscript, deals with the later years of Guy's life, beginning with his return to Warwick after having established himself on the Continent as a pre-eminent model of knighthood. After his marriage, however, he is stricken by remorse for the very actions that have brought him fame, and he sets out anonymously on a series of pilgrimages of atonement.
Pearl
Pearl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pearl write by Sarah Stanbury. This book was released on 2001-12-01. Pearl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language. It is a story, according to Sarah Stanbury, "of crossing-over, the stepping out from the ordinary life into a parallel universe where things operate by different natural laws: down the rabbit hole, through the wardrobe or looking glass, across the ocean to be shipwrecked on Prospero's island, or more recently, across a bridge to the island of Willow Springs in Gloria Naylor's haunting novel, Mama Day, where the crossing-over moves into a place of memory and hope, the nostalgic space of home as well as Beulah or Eden, the earthly paradise."
