Blurton / Unknown / Reynolds Bestsellers and masterpieces

The changing medieval canon
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4749-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the ‘modern canon’ of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Blurton, Heather

Reynolds, Dwight F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Heather Blurton and Dwight F. Reynolds

Part I: Hanging by a thread: unique manuscripts and their place in the ‘modern’ medieval canon
1. Contemplating books with Usama ibn Munqidh’s Book of Contemplation – Paul M. Cobb
2. Dons and dragons: Beowulf and ‘popular reading’ – Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver
3. Ibn ?azm’s ?awq al-?amama (The Neck-Ring of the Dove) – Boris Liebrenz
4. 'Thirty pieces of silver': interpreting anti-Jewish imagery in the Poema de mio Cid manuscript – Ryan D. Giles
5. ‘Let no bad song be sung of us’: fame, memory and transmission in/and the Chanson de Roland – Sharon Kinoshita

Part II: Medieval bestsellers: reading the ‘medieval canon’?
6. World literature and its discontents: reading the life of A?iqar – Daniel L. Selden
7. The Alexander Romance in the age of scribal reproduction: the aesthetics and precariousness of a popular text – Shamma Boyarin
8. Wisdom literature and the medieval bestsellers – Karla Mallette
9. Lost worlds: encyclopedism and riddles in the tale of Tawaddud/Theodor – Christine Chism

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Blurton Heather:
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in Literature at Fordham UniversityHeather Blurton is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Dwight F. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of Arabic Language and Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara