Medieval English Romance in Context - 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 Medieval English Romance in Context write by Gail Ashton. This book was released on 2010-04-15. Medieval English Romance in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Structured in three parts, this book focuses on immediate contexts, key texts, and wider contexts enabling development from background issues through the actual literary texts to criticism and afterlives.
Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts
Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts - 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 Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts write by Michael Staveley Cichon. This book was released on 2011. Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance
Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance - 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 Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance write by Corinne J. Saunders. This book was released on 2010. Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This study looks at a wide range of medieval Englisih romance texts, including the works of Chaucer and Malory, from a broad cultural perspective, to show that while they employ magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds, they are also grounded in a sense of possibility, and reflect a complex web of inherited and current ideas." --Book Jacket.
Gender and History in Medieval English Romance and Chronicle
Gender and History in Medieval English Romance and Chronicle - 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 Gender and History in Medieval English Romance and Chronicle write by Laura D. Barefield. This book was released on 2003. Gender and History in Medieval English Romance and Chronicle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This reading of canonical texts of medieval English literature - Sir Gawain and the Green Night and Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale - alongside Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae and other Anglo-Norman and English chronicles offers a broader context for reading the romance narratives and re-evaluates romance conventions in light of the genealogical priorities of these chronicles. By arguing that maternity is featured as a position of power, Gender and History in Medieval English Romance and Chronicle adds to our understanding of women and sovereignty, and the ways gender and authority were rhetorically linked to medieval texts.
Medieval English Romance in Context
Medieval English Romance in Context - 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 Medieval English Romance in Context write by Gail Ashton. This book was released on 2010-02-11. Medieval English Romance in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medieval Romance in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues and events that impacted on romance writing and its reception such as chivalric ideals, the Black Death, wars and 'Englishness' as well as key literary issues such as medieval manuscript production and its transmission. Close readings of key texts - including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Breton lays and Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale - highlight generic features and issues like family drama, space and time, and nationhood. The final section introduces key critical interpretations from different perspectives including gender and queer theory, and post-colonialism in medieval studies. A chapter on afterlives and adaptations explores reinterpretations of medieval romance and the Arthurian cycles in a range of popular texts and narratives from Doctor Who to Batman. 'Review, Reading and Research' sections give suggestions for further reading, discussion and research. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying Medieval Romance.
