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Author : Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780879721145
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.
Author : Andrew M. Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108913091
Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped and were in turn influenced by contemporary perspectives on the natural world. These popular texts also reveal widespread concern regarding the damaging effects of human actions and climate change. The natural world was a constant presence in the writing, thoughts, and lives of the audiences and authors of medieval English romance – and these close readings reveal that our environmental concerns go back further in our history and culture than we think.
Author : Raluca L. Radulescu
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 184384270X
Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the Middle Ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre has defied precise definition, its subject matter ranging from tales of chivalric adventure, to saintly women, and monsters that become human. The essays in this collection provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.
Author : Ad Putter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317885554
The Middle English popular romances enjoyed a wide appeal in later medieval Britain, and even today students of medieval literature will encounter examples of the genre, such as Sir Orfeo, Sir Tristrem, and Sir Launfal. This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays is designed to meet the need for a stimulating guide to the genre. Each essay introduces one popular romance, setting it in its literary and historical contexts, and develops an original interpretation that reveals the possibilities that popular romances offer for modern literary criticism. A substantial introduction by the editors discusses the production and transmission of popular romances in the Middle Ages, and considers the modern reception of popular romance and the interpretative challenges offered by new theoretical approaches. Accessible to advanced students of English, this book is also of interest to those working in the field of medieval studies, comparative literature, and popular culture.
Author : MacEdward Leach
Publisher : Early English Text Society
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2001-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859919371
Author : Ad Putter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317885562
The Middle English popular romances enjoyed a wide appeal in later medieval Britain, and even today students of medieval literature will encounter examples of the genre, such as Sir Orfeo, Sir Tristrem, and Sir Launfal. This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays is designed to meet the need for a stimulating guide to the genre. Each essay introduces one popular romance, setting it in its literary and historical contexts, and develops an original interpretation that reveals the possibilities that popular romances offer for modern literary criticism. A substantial introduction by the editors discusses the production and transmission of popular romances in the Middle Ages, and considers the modern reception of popular romance and the interpretative challenges offered by new theoretical approaches. Accessible to advanced students of English, this book is also of interest to those working in the field of medieval studies, comparative literature, and popular culture.
Author : Josie P. Campbell
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780879723392
The culture of the Middle Ages was as complex, if not as various, as our own, as the essays in this volume ably demonstrate. The essays cover a wide range of tipics, from church sculpture as "advertisement" to tricks and illusions as "homeeconomics."
Author : Linda Marie Zaerr
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1843843234
An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.
Author : Derek Brewer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 1988
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780859912471
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.
Author : S. H. A. Shepherd
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393966077
This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance.