The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance
1st Edition
Published on 16. May 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-582-29888-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays provides a stimulating guide to the Middle English popular romances. These were very popular 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. 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.
Reviews / Votes
'.....these new essays offer varied and thoughtful approaches to a group of relatively little known romances, and are successful in demonstrating their interest for the literary critic as well as the historian or linguist.' Corinne Saunders, Notes and Queries. 'The book is worth recommending to students as an accessible starting point...' Christopher Dyer, University of Leicester 'The reading of the articles proves in itself to be an entertaining, aesthetically satisfying and scholarly redeeming act and whets the reader's appetitie for the original texts...' Dr Thomas Honegger, Chair of Medieval Studies, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
477 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-29888-0 (9780582298880)
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Persons
Ad Putter is Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Bristol, and also works for the Centre for Medieval Studies at Bristol. He is author of various books and articles on medieval literature, including An Introduction to the Gawain poet also published by Longman.
Jane Gilbert is Lecturer in French at University College London. She is the author of several articles on medieval French and English romances.
Jane Gilbert is Lecturer in French at University College London. She is the author of several articles on medieval French and English romances.
Content
Preface
Notes on references and abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Lai le Freine: The Female Foundling and the Prolem of Romance Genre
Chapter 2 Lanval to Sir Laurifal: A Story Becomes Popular
Chapter 3 The Tale ef Gamelyn: Class Warfare and the Embarrassments of Genre
Chhapter 4 The Romance Hypothetical: Lordship and the Saracens in Sir Isumbras
Chapter 5 Violence, Narrative and Proper Name: Sir Degare, 'The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney', and the Folie Tristan d'OxfOrd
Chapter 6 Loving Beasts: The Romance of William ef Paleme
Chapter 7: The Narrative Logic of Emare
Chapter 8 Tiie Seege ef Troye: 'ff or wham was wakened al this wo'?
Chapter 9 Romance and Its Discontents in Eger and Grime
Chapter 10 From Beyond the Grave: Darkness at Noon in Tiie Awnfyrs qff Arthure
Chapter 11 Gender, Oaths and Ambiguity in Sir Tristrem and Beroul's Roman de Tristan
Chapter 12 Sir Difeo: Madness and Gender
bliography
Notes on contributors
Index
Notes on references and abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Lai le Freine: The Female Foundling and the Prolem of Romance Genre
Chapter 2 Lanval to Sir Laurifal: A Story Becomes Popular
Chapter 3 The Tale ef Gamelyn: Class Warfare and the Embarrassments of Genre
Chhapter 4 The Romance Hypothetical: Lordship and the Saracens in Sir Isumbras
Chapter 5 Violence, Narrative and Proper Name: Sir Degare, 'The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney', and the Folie Tristan d'OxfOrd
Chapter 6 Loving Beasts: The Romance of William ef Paleme
Chapter 7: The Narrative Logic of Emare
Chapter 8 Tiie Seege ef Troye: 'ff or wham was wakened al this wo'?
Chapter 9 Romance and Its Discontents in Eger and Grime
Chapter 10 From Beyond the Grave: Darkness at Noon in Tiie Awnfyrs qff Arthure
Chapter 11 Gender, Oaths and Ambiguity in Sir Tristrem and Beroul's Roman de Tristan
Chapter 12 Sir Difeo: Madness and Gender
bliography
Notes on contributors
Index