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Major themes explored are narratives of the disguised prince, and
the reinvention of stories for different tastes and periods. These
studies cover a wide chronological range and familiar and
unfamiliar texts and topics. The disguised prince is a theme
linking several articles, from early Anglo-Norman romances through
later English ones, like King Edward and the Shepherd, to a late
16th-century recasting of the Havelok story as a Tudor celebration
of Gloriana. 'Translation' in its widest sense, the way romance can
reinvent stories for different tastes and periods, is
anotherrunning theme; the opening introductory article considers
the topic of translation theoretically, concerned to stimulate
further research on how insular romances were transferred between
vernaculars and literary systems, while other essays consider
Lovelich's Merlin (a poem translating its Arthurian material to the
poet's contemporary London milieu), Chaucer, and Breton lays in
England. Contributors: JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND
FIELD, MORGAN DICKSON, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, AMANDA HOPKINS, ARLYN
DIAMOND, PAUL PRICE, W.A. DAVENPORT, RACHEL SNELL, ROGER DALRYMPLE,
HELEN COOPER. Selected studies, 'Romance in Medieval England'
conference.
An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety
of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and
alchemical treatises. It is often said that the past is a foreign
country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of
"doing" is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our
modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised bya polarising
dichotomy between the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of
romance on one hand, and the darkly imagined and misogyny of an
unenlightened "medieval" sexuality on the other. British medieval
sexual culture also exhibits such dualities through the influential
paradigms of sinner or saint, virgin or whore, and protector or
defiler of women. However, such sexual identities are rarely
coherent or stable, and it is in the grey areas, the interstices
between normative modes of sexuality, that we find the most
compelling instances of erotic frisson and sexual expression. This
collection of essays brings together a wide-ranging discussion of
the sexual possibilitiesand fantasies of medieval Britain as they
manifest themselves in the literature of the period. Taking as
their matter texts and authors as diverse as Chaucer, Gower,
Dunbar, Malory, alchemical treatises, and romances, the
contributions reveal a surprising variety of attitudes, strategies
and sexual subject positions. Amanda Hopkins teaches in English and
French at the University of Warwick; Robert Allen Rouse is
Associate Professor of English atthe University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Cory James Rushton
is Associate Professor of English at St Francis Xavier University
in Nova Scotia, Canada. Contributors: Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey,
Kristina Hildebrand, Amy S. Kaufman, Yvette Kisor, Megan G. Leitch,
Cynthea Masson, Hannah Priest, Samantha J. Rayner, Robert Allen
Rouse, Cory James Rushton, Amy N. Vines
An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety
of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and
alchemical treatises. It is often said that the past is a foreign
country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of
"doing" is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our
modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised bya polarising
dichotomy between the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of
romance on one hand, and the darkly imagined and misogyny of an
unenlightened "medieval" sexuality on the other. British medieval
sexual culture also exhibits such dualities through the influential
paradigms of sinner or saint, virgin or whore, and protector or
defiler of women. However, such sexual identities are rarely
coherent or stable, and it is in the grey areas, the interstices
between normative modes of sexuality, that we find the most
compelling instances of erotic frisson and sexual expression. This
collection of essays brings together a wide-ranging discussion of
the sexual possibilitiesand fantasies of medieval Britain as they
manifest themselves in the literature of the period. Taking as
their matter texts and authors as diverse as Chaucer, Gower,
Dunbar, Malory, alchemical treatises, and romances, the
contributions reveal a surprising variety of attitudes, strategies
and sexual subject positions. Amanda Hopkins teaches in English and
French at the University of Warwick; Robert Allen Rouse is
Associate Professor of English atthe University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Cory James Rushton
is Associate Professor of English at St Francis Xavier University
in Nova Scotia, Canada. Contributors: Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey,
Kristina Hildebrand, Amy S. Kaufman, Yvette Kisor, Megan G. Leitch,
Cynthea Masson, Hannah Priest, Samantha J. Rayner, Robert Allen
Rouse, Cory James Rushton, Amy N. Vines
An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes
articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between
eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic. This
volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain,
primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old
French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it
differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as
the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of
clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and
transgression, the interplay between religion and the erotic, and
the hedonistic horrors of the cannibalistic Giant of Mont St
Michel. Amanda Hopkins teaches in the Department of English and
Comparative Literary Studies and the department of French at the
University of Warwick. Cory James Rushton is in the Department of
English at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Contributors: Anthony Bale, Jane Bliss, Michael Cichon, Thomas H.
Crofts III, Alex Davis, Kristina Hildebrand, Amanda Hopkins,Simon
Meecham-Jones, Sue Niebrzydowski, Margaret Robson, Robert Rouse,
Cory James Rushton, Corinne Saunders.
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. Delivers
some fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARYSUPPLEMENT The Arthurian material collected
in this volume ranges widely in time and space, from a Latin
romance based on Welsh sources to the post-Christian Arthur of
modern fiction and film. It begins with a tribute to the late Derek
Brewer, a reprinting of the classic introduction to his edition of
the last two tales of Malory's Morte Darthur. Further subjects
covered include a possible source manuscript for Malory's first
tale; the "Arthuricity" of the little-known Latin romance Arthur
and Gorlagon; images of sterility and fertility in the
continuations of Chretien's Conte du Graal; and early modern
responses to Geoffrey of Monmouth's account of Arthur's dealings
withRome. Norris Lacy ranges widely over the evolution of the
Arthurian legend, and Ronald Hutton considers representations of
both Christian and pagan religion in modern novels and cinema. The
volume ends with a bibliographical supplement on recent additions
to Arthurian fiction. CONTRIBUTORS: Derek Brewer, Jonathan Passaro,
Amanda Hopkins, Thomas Hinton, Sian Echard, Norris Lacy, Ronald
Hutton, Raymond Thompson.
An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes
articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between
eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic. This
volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain,
primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old
French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it
differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as
the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of
clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and
transgression, the interplay between religion and the erotic, and
the hedonistic horrors of the cannibalistic Giant of Mont St
Michel. Contributors: ALEX DAVIS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, JANE BLISS,
SUE NIEBRZYDOWSKI, KRISTINA HILDEBRAND, ANTHONY BALE, CORY JAMES
RUSHTON, CORINNE SAUNDERS, AMANDA HOPKINS, ROBERT ROUSE, MARGARET
ROBSON, THOMAS H. CROFTS III, MICHAEL CICHON. AMANDA HOPKINS
teaches in the department of English and Comparative Literary
Studies and the department of French at the University of Warwick;
CORY RUSHTON is in the Department of English at St. Francis Xavier
University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
29 studies of courtly literature from six different traditions in
four languages. The essays presented here study the different
linguistic and literary traditions of courtly literature, across
four languages, using a wide range of approaches and taking a
number of different perspectives; they reflect both current
preoccupations in scholarship and perennial concerns, and use both
traditional and new methodologies to study a variety of texts.
Topics covered include ideologies of love and courtliness; women's
voices and roles; incest and identity; poetics; historical
approaches; and adaptations and transformations. First delivered at
the 1998 meeting of the International Courtly Literature Society at
Vancouver, the articles demonstrate the vitality of the field
andoffer fresh new insights into the tradition of courtly
literature as a whole.
Twelve essays address a central concern of medieval romance, the
matter of identity. Identity is a central concern of medieval
romance. Here it is approached through essays on issues of origin
and parentage, transformation and identity, and fundamental
questions of what constitutes the human. The construction of
knightly identity through education and testing is explored, and
placed in relation to female identity; the significance of the
motif of doubling is studied. Shifting perceptions of identities
are traced through the histories of specific texts, and the
identity of romance itself is the subject of several essays
discussing ideas of genre (the overlap between romance and
hagiography is a theme linking a number of articles in the
collection). Medieval romanceis shown as a marketable commodity in
the printed output of William Copland, and as an opportunity for
literary experimentation in the work of John Metham. The texts
discussed include: Chevalere Assigne, Sir Gowther, Sir Ysumbras,
Beves of Hamtoun, Robert of Cisyle, the Fierabras romances, Breton
lays, Thomas's Tristan and Marie de France's Eliduc. Contributors:
W.A. DAVENPORT, JOANNE CHARBONNEAU, CORINNE SAUNDERS, AMANDA
HOPKINS, MORGAN DICKSON, MARIANNE AILES, JUDITH WEISS, JOHN SIMONS,
RHIANNON PURDIE, MALDWYN MILLS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ROGER DALRYMPLE.
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