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Offers an excellent introduction to the work currently and
historically being done on fairy tales by folk-lorists. MEDIEVAL
REVIEW Introduction by Derek Brewer. This book discusses the
characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North
America, and various theories of its development and
interpretation. The book deals with the main collections - the
Grimm brothers, Hans Andersen, Perrault and Afanes'ev - and with
the development of tales in various regions of Europe, including
Ireland, Wales, Scandinavia, Germany and Russia, as well as India,
where it was once claimed that they originated. The subject of the
fairy tale is a controversial one: problems discussed here include
the relationship between tales recorded from story-tellers and
literary works, the importance of printed worksfor the spread of
the tales, the growth of recent examples with a feminine approach,
the spread of popular tales like Cinderella, special types like the
cumulative tales, possible effects of TV, and the nature of
traditional plots and characters. Above all, the collection is
concerned with the distribution and long survival of these tales,
and the nature of their appeal. SHORTLISTED FOR THE KATHARINE
BRIGGS FOLKLORE AWARD 2004. Contributors: GRAHAM ANDERSON, DAVID
BLAMIRES, RUTH BOTTIGHEIMER, DEREK BREWER, MARY BROCKINGTON, ANNA
CHAUDHRI, HILDA ELLIS DAVIDSON, ROBIN GWYNDAF, BENGT HOLBEK, DAVID
HUNT, REIMUND KVIDELAND, PATRICIA LYSAGHT, NEIL PHILIP, JAMES
RIORDAN, PAT SCHAEFER, TOM SHIPPEY, JOYCE THOMAS.
Essays examining the genre of medieval romance in its cultural
Christian context, bringing out its chameleon-like character. The
relationship between the Christianity of medieval culture and its
most characteristic narrative, the romance, is complex and the
modern reading of it is too often confused. Not only can it be
difficult to negotiate the distant, sometimes alien concepts of
religious cultures of past centuries in a modern, secular,
multi-cultural society, but there is no straightforward Christian
context of Middle English romance - or of medieval romance in
general, although this volume focuses on the romances of England.
Medieval audiences had apparently very different expectations and
demands of their entertainment: some looking for, and evidently
finding, moral exempla and analogues of biblical narratives, others
secular, even sensational, entertainment of a type condemned by
moralising voices. The essays collected here show how the romances
of medieval England engage with its Christian culture. Topics
include the handling of material from pre-Christian cultures,
classical and Celtic, the effect of the Crusades, the meaning of
chivalry, and the place of women in pious romances. Case studies,
including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Morte
Darthur, offer new readings and ideas for teaching romance to
contemporary students. They do not present a single view of a
complex situation, but demonstrate the importance of reading
romances with anawareness of the knowledge and cultural capital
represented by Christianity for its original writers and audiences.
Contributors: HELEN PHILLIPS, STEPHEN KNIGHT, PHILLIPA HARDMAN,
MARIANNE AILES, RALUCA L. RADULESCU, CORINNE SAUNDERS, K.S.
WHETTER, ANDREA HOPKINS, ROSALIND FIELD, DEREK BREWER, D. THOMAS
HANKS, MICHELLE SWEENEY
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.
Eleven essays bring Arthurian studies into the 21st century,
including film and black popular culture. Eleven essays by leading
Arthurians lead off with an overview of the field suggesting
directions that Arthurian studies must take to remain vital. Other
essays contain innovative approaches, overviews of specific areas
of Arthurian studies, and suggestions for new ways to approach
Arthurian material; they range over Malory, Latin Arthurian
literature, Gawain and the Green Knight, Merlin in the twenty-first
century, Tennyson's Idylls, Arthur in African-American culture,
current trends in criticism, Arthurian fiction, and Arthurian film.
Contributors: ROBERT BLANCH, DEREK BREWER, P.J.C. FIELD, SIAN
ECHARD, PETER GOODRICH, KEVIN HARTY, NORRIS J. LACY, BARBARATEPA
LUPACK, DAVID STAINES, RAYMOND THOMPSON, JULIAN WASSERMAN, BONNIE
WHEELER.
Studies of the evolution of the hero, from Beowulf to Lancelot.
Andre Crepin, head of the English faculty at the Sorbonne, has made
a great contribution to medieval English studies in France and in
Europe. These studies in his honour reflect the wide range of his
interests in Old and Middle English, fromBeowulf to Malory. Their
linking theme is the literary and linguistic evolution of the hero,
from the classic expression of the Germanic code to the chivalry of
the knights of the Round Table, from Beowulf toChaucer's knight to
Sir Lancelot. Beowulf as archetypal hero is both the subject of and
the concept behind more than one study; others, attempting to
define heroism, grapple with the semantic problem posed by the
absence of thisword until very late in the medieval period; and the
very notion of heroism is questioned as the passive hero or
anti-hero emerges as a literary type, at the same time as the
medieval consciousness of self developed. Contributors: GUY
BOURGUIN, LEO CARRUTHERS, PETER CLEMOES, ANDY ORCHARD, ERIC
STANLEY, JULIETTE DOR, DEREK BREWER, TERENCE P. DOLAN, JILL MANN,
JOSSELINE BIBARD, JEAN-JACQUES BLANCHOT, JAMES WIMSATT, TERENCE
McCARTHY, GLORIA CIGMAN.
Studies of the influence of the middle ages on aspects of European
and American life and culture from 16c to the present day. The
eleven essays in this volume are studies of specific instances of
the influence and impact of the middle ages on Western life and
culture from the sixteenth century to the present day. They cover a
wide range of topics -literature, stylistics, lexicography, art,
the cinema, philosophy, history and myth-making, oral traditions,
feminist issues - and reflect the enduring influence of the middle
ages on European art and life. Dr MARIE-FRANCOISE ALAMICHEL is
lecturer in English at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne; the
late DEREK BREWER was Emeritus Professor of English, University of
Cambridge. Contributors: CLAIRE VIAL, DERICK S. THOMSON, KEES
DEKKER, ERIC G. STANLEY, FLORENCE BOURGNE, RENATE HAAS, DEREK
BREWER, LAURA KENDRICK, RENE GALLET, JAMES NOBLE, SANDRA
GORGIEVSKI.
Studies range over the whole field of Arthurian literature, in
Europe and North America, with special focus on Malory and Morte
Darthur. Peter Field, Professor of English at the University of
Wales, Bangor, is a distinguished Arthurian scholar (and
vice-president of the International Arthurian Society) whose work
has focused particularly on Malory's Morte Darthur. This special
interest is reflected by the contributors to this volume, but a
wide variety of other Arthurian and associated material is also
covered in the twenty-seven studies. The chapters range over the
whole field of Arthurian vernacular texts and include new studies
of early French and German texts as well as an analysis of the
impact of Arthurian materials on Galician-Portuguese poetry. Many
provide new insights into Malory's text and sources,and these
culminate in reflections on Malory's impact on one later American
reader, Mark Twain. Collectively the chapters on Malory
substantiate a the claim that Malory is a keen and critical reader
of his source texts, and thathe is a powerful stylist. Contributors
BRIAN ALLEN, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, FANNI BOGDANOW, DEREK S. BREWER,
GEOFFREY BROMILEY, HELEN COOPER, JANET M, COWEN, ROSALIND FIELD,
LINDA GOWANS, DOUGLAS GRAY, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, AMELIA HUTCHINSON,
EDWARD D. KENNEDY, ELSPETH M. KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, MARGARET
LOCHERBIE-CAMERON, ROGER MIDDLETON, DAVID MILLS, MALDWYN MILLS,
YUJI NAKAO, SHUNICHI NOGUCHI, RALPH NORRIS, AD PUTTER, RALUCA
RADULESCU, FRANCOISE LE SAUX, JANE TAYLOR, NEIL E. THOMAS, KEVIN S.
WHETTER, ANDREA WILLIAMS.
Representations of masculinity in Chaucer's works examined through
modern critical theory. How does Chaucer portray the various male
pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales? How manly is Troilus? To what
extent can the spirit and terminology of recent feminist criticism
inform the study of Chaucer's men? Is there such athing as a
distinct `Chaucerian masculinity', or does it appear in a multitude
of different forms? These are some of the questions that the
contributors to this ground-breaking and provocative volume attempt
to answer, using a diversity of critical methods and theories. Some
look at the behaviour of noble or knightly men; some at clerics, or
businessmen, or churls; others examine the so-called "masculine"
qualities of female characters, and the "feminine"qualities of male
characters. Topics include the Host's bourgeois masculinity; the
erotic triangles operating in the Miller's Tale; why Chaucer
`diminished' the sexuality of Sir Thopas; and whether Troilus is
effeminate, impotent or an example of true manhood. PETER G.
BEIDLER is the Lucy G.Moses Distinguished Professor of English at
Lehigh University. Contributors: MARK ALLEN, PATRICIA CLARE INGHAM,
MARTIN BLUM, DANIEL F. PIGG, ELIZABETH M. BIEBEL, JEAN E. JOST,
CAROL EVEREST, ANDREA ROSSI-REDER, GLENN BURGER, PETER G. BEIDLER,
JEFFREY JEROME COHEN, DANIEL RUBEY, MICHAEL D. SHARP, PAUL R.
THOMAS, STEPHANIE DIETRICH, MAUD BURNETT MCINERNEY, DEREK BREWER
Essays on Arthurian themes, on Beowulf, Chaucer and Shakespeare,
and textual studies of Gower and others. These essays for Shunichi
Noguchi, by scholars from Britain, the USA and Japan, reflect his
approach to English studies and his wide range of interests from
Beowulf to Ulysses. The principal focus, however, is on medieval
and renaissance studies: nine of the essays are on Arthurian
themes, to which Professor Noguchi has devoted his academic life.
There are also essays on Beowulf, Chaucer, the York miracle plays,
and Shakespeare, as well as textual studies of Gower, Wulfstan,
Wycliffe and Caxton. Contributors: SHUICHI AITA, SHINSUKE ANDO,
DEREK BREWER, ANTONY DICKINSON, P.J.C. FIELD, KAZUO FUKUDA, EIICHI
HAYAKAWA, TADAHIRO IKEGAMI, MIKIKO ISHII, SOUJIIWASAKI, GREGORY K.
JEMBER, TOMOMI KATO, EDWARD DONALD KENNEDY,TADAO KUBOUCHI, JOHN
LAWLOR, KIYOKAZU MIZOBATA, GEORGE MOOR, TSUYOSHI MUKAI, YUJI NAKAO,
FUMIKO OKA, YUZUYO OKUMURA, ISAMU SAITO, SHIRO SHIBA, JAN SIMKO,
JUN SUDO, TAKASHI SUZUKI, TOSHIYUKI TAKAMIYA, RAYMOND P. TRIPP.
A wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. This
collection of essays makes available a wide range of new
scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. Opening essays address the issues
of "Chaucerian representation" and "Chaucerian poetics", arguing
for the multiplicity and complexityof what Chaucer "represents" and
for the importance of his dual Anglo-French background in enabling
him to articulate that complexity. Chaucer's use of Ovidian and
Ciceronian sources and ideas is examined, and his pursuit of
simplicity and suspicion of "delicacy"; the potent issues of
sexuality and spirituality, and money and death (with Chaucer's own
ending and his thoughts on last things) complete the collection.
Contributors: DEREK BREWER, HELEN COOPER, PAUL DOWER, JOHN V.
FLEMING, JOHN HILL, TRAUGOTT LAWLER, CELIA LEWIS, R. BARTON PALMER,
WILLIAM PROVOST, JOHN PLUMMER, WILLIAM ROGERS.
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