Boundaries in Medieval Romance

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84384-155-5
Verlag: D.S.Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval Romance

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cartlidge, Neil M R

Weitere Mitwirkende

Diamond, Arlyn

Saunders, Corinne

Berlings, Elizabeth

Williams, Elizabeth

Cooper, Helen

Djordjevic, Ivana

Weiss, Judith

Ashe, Laura

Ailes, Marianne

Hardman, Phillipa

Rouse, Robert

Field, Rosalind

Meecham-Jones, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
When 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

Über Autor(innen)

Ashe, Laura
LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.

Saunders, Corinne
Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham.

Rouse, Robert
ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Ailes, Marianne
MARIANNE AILES is Professor of French at the University of Bristol.

Hardman, Phillipa
PHILLIPA HARDMAN is Reader in Medieval English Literature (retired) at the University of Reading.

Weiss, Judith
JUDITH WEISS is a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, UK.

Cartlidge, Neil M R
NEIL CARTLIDGE is Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham, UK.