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Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance
Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a significant contribution to ongoing critical debates over the definition of romance and the genre and artistry of Malory's Morte Darthur. K.S. Whetter offers an original approach to these issues by prefacing a comprehensive study of romance with a wide-ranging and historically diverse study of genre and genre theory. In doing so Whetter addresses the questions of why and how romance might usefully be defined and how such an awareness of genre-and the expectations that come with such awareness-impact upon both our understanding of the texts themselves and of how they may have be...
A Companion to Medieval Poetry
MEDIEVAL POETRY In a series of original essays from leading literary scholars, this Companion offers a chronological sweep of medieval poetry from Old English to the great genres of romance, narrative, and alliterative poetry of the 15th century. Beginning in the Anglo-Saxon period, the volume explores the Old English language and its alliterative tradition, before moving on to examine the genres of heroic, devotional, wisdom and epic poetry, culminating in a discussion of arguably the founding text of the English literary canon, the great epic Beowulf. In part two, the Companion moves on to discuss the linguistic and social changes brought about as a result of the Norman Conquest, exploring...
A New History of English Metre
"In the hundred years since the last major history of English metre was published, dramatic changes have occurred in both the way that poets versify in English and the way that scholars analyze verse. 'Free' verse is now firmly established alongside regular metre, and linguistics, statistics, and cognitive theory have contributed to the analysis of both. This new study covers the history of English metre up to the twenty-first century and compares a variety of modern theories to explain it. The result is a concise and up-to-date guide to metre for all students and teachers of English poetry." --Book Jacket.
An Anthology of Christian Mysticism
"A Pueblo book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 610-615) and index.
Pilgrim and Preacher
Pilgrim and Preacher seeks to understand the numerous pilgrimage writings of the Dominican Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502), not only as rich descriptions of the Holy Land, Egypt, and Palestine, but also as sources for the religious attitudes and social assumptions that went into their creation. Fabri, an Observant reformer and talented preacher, as well as a two-time Holy Land pilgrim, adapted his pilgrimage experiences for four different audiences. He produced the rhymed Swabian-German Pilgerbuchlein for those who sponsored his first voyage; the encyclopaedic Latin Evagatorium for his Dominican brethren; the vernacular Pilgerbuch for the noble patrons of his second voyage and their households; an...
Saracens and the Making of English Identity
This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various English knights. In these texts, Saracens engage issues such as the demarcation of communal borders, th...
Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Coping with Conquest: Local Identity and the Gesta Herwardi -- 2. The View from Lincolnshire: Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis as Regional History -- 3. Locating a Border: Fouke le Fitz Waryn and the March of Wales -- 4. Englishness Outside England: Embracing Alterity in Medieval Romance -- 5. England at the Edge of the World -- Envoi -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Text and Tradition of La[y]amon's Brut
Essays reflecting the present state of Layamon studies, identifying problems and outlining current directions in research.
Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field
Studies range over the whole field of Arthurian literature, in Europe and North America, with special focus on Malory and Morte Darthur.
Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance
Barnes contends that `rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of Middle English romance.
