Performing Medieval Narrative - 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 Performing Medieval Narrative write by Evelyn Birge Vitz. This book was released on 2005. Performing Medieval Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A survey of an investigation into whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.
Performing Medieval Text
Performing Medieval Text - 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 Performing Medieval Text write by Ardis Butterfield. This book was released on 2017. Performing Medieval Text available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle Ages is granted by a host of texts: liturgical manuals; manuscripts of epic poetry, vernacular lyric, and music; paintings, and many more. Adopting a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-literary studies, liturgical studies, iconography, and musicology-this collection of essays reveals the two-fold performative nature of such texts: they document, mediate, or prefigure acts of performance, while at the same time taking on performative roles themselves by generating additional layers of meaning. Focussing on acts, authors, and receptive processes of performance, the authors demonstrate the significance of the performative to the culture of the High and Late Middle Ages (c.1000-1500), from chant to Chaucer, from Scandinavia to Imperial Augsburg.
Acts and Texts
Acts and Texts - 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 Acts and Texts write by Laurie Postlewate. This book was released on 2007. Acts and Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideological grounding; texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance. Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read reception of its written text. The current volume of essays examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter: from the "performed" life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches, to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of public performance and the textual origins and subsequent representation of those performances.
Tense and Narrativity
Tense and Narrativity - 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 Tense and Narrativity write by Suzanne Fleischman. This book was released on 2010-07-22. Tense and Narrativity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language. Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation for all narratological study, since it offers insight into how narratives are constructed in their most primary context: everyday speech. She uses a linguistic model designed for "natural" narrative to explicate the organizational structure of "artificial" narrative texts, primarily from the Middle Ages and the postmodern period, whose seemingly idiosyncratic use of tenses has long perplexed those who study them. Fleischman develops a functional theory of tense and aspect in narrative that accounts for the wide variety of functions—pragmatic as well as grammatical—that these two categories of grammar are called upon to perform in the linguistic economy of a narration.
Visualizing Medieval Performance
Visualizing Medieval Performance - 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 Visualizing Medieval Performance write by Elina Gertsman. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Visualizing Medieval Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking a fresh look at the interconnections between medieval images, texts, theater, and practices of viewing, reading and listening, this explicitly interdisciplinary volume explores various manifestations of performance and meanings of performativity in the Middle Ages. The contributors - from their various perspectives as scholars of art history, religion, history, literary studies, theater studies, music and dance - combine their resources to reassess the complexity of expressions and definitions of medieval performance in a variety of different media. Among the topics considered are interconnections between ritual and theater; dynamics of performative readings of illuminated manuscripts, buildings and sculptures; linguistic performances of identity; performative models of medieval spirituality; social and political spectacles encoded in ceremonies; junctures between spatial configurations of the medieval stage and mnemonic practices used for meditation; performances of late medieval music that raise questions about the issues of historicity, authenticity, and historical correctness in performance; and tensions inherent in the very notion of a medieval dance performance.
