Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality - 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 and the Construction of Heterosexuality write by L. Sylvester. This book was released on 2007-12-25. Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book interrogates our ideas about heterosexuality through examination of medieval romance narratives. Familiar configurations of romantic fiction such as male desire overwhelming feminine reluctance and the aloof masculine hero undone by love derive from this period. This book tests current theories of language and desire through stylistic analysis, examining transitivity choices and speech acts in sexual encounters and conversations in medieval romances. In the context of current preoccupations with gender and sexuality, and consent in rape cases, this study is of interest to scholars investigating language and sexuality as well as those researching and teaching medieval literature and culture.
Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist 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 Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance write by Amy Burge. This book was released on 2017-02-14. Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.
Medieval Romance and Material Culture
Medieval Romance and Material Culture - 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 and Material Culture write by Nicholas Perkins. This book was released on 2015. Medieval Romance and Material Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves. Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance, however, is also agenre in which such objects make meaning on numerous levels, and not always in predictable ways. These new essays examine from diverse perspectives how romances respond to material culture, but also show how romance as a genre helps to constitute and transmit that culture. Focusing on romances circulating in Britain and Ireland between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, individual chapters address such questions as the relationship between objects and protagonists in romance narrative; the materiality of male and female bodies; the interaction between visual and verbal representations of romance; poetic form and manuscript textuality; and how a nineteenth-century edition of medieval romances provoked artists to homage and satire. NICHOLAS PERKINS is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. Contributors: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey, Neil Cartlidge, Mark Cruse, Morgan Dickson, Rosalind Field, Elliot Kendall, Megan G. Leitch, Henrike Manuwald, Nicholas Perkins, Ad Putter, Raluca L. Radulescu, Robert Allen Rouse,
Handbook of Medieval Studies
Handbook of Medieval Studies - 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 Handbook of Medieval Studies write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2010-11-29. Handbook of Medieval Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
Annotated Chaucer bibliography
Annotated Chaucer bibliography - 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 Annotated Chaucer bibliography write by Mark Allen. This book was released on 2015-11-01. Annotated Chaucer bibliography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010
