A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance.
Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibilities implicit in boundaries – not only the geographical, political and cultural frontiers that medieval romances imagine and imply, but also more metaphorical demarcations. It is these boundaries, as they appear in insular romances circulating in English and French, which the essays in this volume address. They include the boundary between reality and fictionality; boundaries between different literary traditions, modes and cultures; and boundaries between different kinds of experience or perception, especially the ‘altered states’ associated with sickness, magic, the supernatural, or the divine.
CONTRIBUTORS: HELEN COOPER, ROSALIND FIELD, MARIANNE AILES, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, ELIZABETH BERLINGS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, ARLYN DIAMOND, ROBERT ROUSE, LAURA ASHE, JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, CORINNE SAUNDERS
Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibilities implicit in boundaries – not only the geographical, political and cultural frontiers that medieval romances imagine and imply, but also more metaphorical demarcations. It is these boundaries, as they appear in insular romances circulating in English and French, which the essays in this volume address. They include the boundary between reality and fictionality; boundaries between different literary traditions, modes and cultures; and boundaries between different kinds of experience or perception, especially the ‘altered states’ associated with sickness, magic, the supernatural, or the divine.
CONTRIBUTORS: HELEN COOPER, ROSALIND FIELD, MARIANNE AILES, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, ELIZABETH BERLINGS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, ARLYN DIAMOND, ROBERT ROUSE, LAURA ASHE, JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, CORINNE SAUNDERS
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Table of Content
IntroductionWhen Romance Comes True – Helen Cooper
The Curious History of the Matter of England – Rosalind Field
How English are the English Charlemagne Romances? – Phillipa Hardman and Marianne Ailes
The
Sege of Melayne; or, How the French Screwed Up and ‘Oure Brettons Rescued Them – Elizabeth Berlings
Romance Society and its Discontents: Romance Motifs and Romance Consequence s in
The Song of Dermot and the Normans in Ireland – Simon Meecham-Jones
England, Ireland and Iberia in
Olyuer of Castylle: The View from Burgundy – Elizabeth Williams
The Alliterative
Siege of Jerusalem: The Poetics of Destruction – Arlyn Diamond
The Peace of the Roads: Authority and
auctoritas in Medieval Romance – Robert Rouse
The Hero and his Realm in Medieval English Romance – Laura Ashe
The Courteous Warrior: Epic, Romance and Comedy in
Boeve de Haumtone – Judith Weiss
Rewriting Divine Favour – Ivana Djordjevic
Bodily Narratives: Illness, Medicine and Healing in Middle English Romance – Corinne Saunders
About the author
ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9781846156137 ● File size 5.0 MB ● Editor Neil M.R. Cartlidge ● Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd ● City Woodbridge ● Country GB ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8379754 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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