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Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the
protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently
celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains
that they discourage recognition of just how morally ambiguous,
antisocial or even downright sinister their protagonists can be,
and, correspondingly, of just how admirable or impressive their
defeated opponents often are. This tension between the heroic and
the antiheroic makes a major contribution to the dramatic
complexity of medieval romance, but it is not an aspect of the
genre that has been frequently discussed up until now. Focusing on
fourteen distinct characters and character-types in medieval
narrative, this book illustrates the range of different ways in
which the imaginative power and appeal of romance-texts often
depend on contradictions implicit in the very ideal of heroism. Dr
Neil Cartlidge is Lecturer in English at the University of Durham.
Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Penny Eley, David Ashurst, Meg
Lamont, Laura Ashe, Judith Weiss, Gareth Griffith, Kate McClune,
Nancy Mason Bradbury, Ad Putter, Robert Rouse, Siobhain Bly Calkin,
James Wade, Stephanie Vierick Gibbs Kamath
Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the
protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently
celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains
that they discourage recognition of just how morally ambiguous,
antisocial or even downright sinister their protagonists can be,
and, correspondingly, of just how admirable or impressive their
defeated opponents often are. This tension between the heroic and
the antiheroic makes a major contribution to the dramatic
complexity of medieval romance, but it is not an aspect of the
genre that has been frequently discussed up until now. Focusing on
fourteen distinct characters and character-types in medieval
narrative, this book illustrates the range of different ways in
which the imaginative power and appeal of romance-texts often
depend on contradictions implicit in the very ideal of heroism.
NEIL CARTLIDGE is Professor of English Studies at the University of
Durham Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Penny Eley, David Ashurst, Meg
Lamont, Laura Ashe, Judith Weiss, Gareth Griffith, Kate McClune,
Nancy Mason Bradbury, Ad Putter, Robert Rouse, Siobhain Bly Calkin,
James Wade, Stephanie Vierick Gibbs Kamath
The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical,
geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take
a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from
the medieval period and explore some of their medieval contexts,
deepening our understanding not only of the romances concerned but
also of the specific medieval contexts that produced or influenced
them. The contexts explored here include traditional literary
features such as genre and rhetorical technique and
literary-cultural questions of authorship, transmission and
readership; but they also extend to such broader intellectual and
social contexts as medieval understandings of geography, the
physiology of swooning, or the efficacy of baptism. A framing
context for the volume is provided by Derek Pearsall's prefatory
essay, in which he revisits his seminal 1965 article on the
development of Middle English romance. Rhiannon Purdie is Senior
Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews; Michael Cichon is
Associate Professor of English at St Thomas More College in the
University of Saskatchewan. Contributors: Derek Pearsall, Nancy
Mason Bradbury, Michael Cichon, Nicholas Perkins, Marianne Ailes,
John A. Geck, Phillipa Hardman, Siobhain Bly Calkin, Judith Weiss,
Robert Rouse, Yin Liu, Emily Wingfield, Rosalind Field
Romance studies from the twelfth century to the era of the printed
book. From the insular romance of the twelfth century (vital to an
understanding of the literary and historical context of medieval
English literature) to the era of the printed book, romance
challenges generic definition, audience expectation and established
scholarly approaches. This third volume of papers from the regular
conference on Romance in Medieval England uses a broad range of
material and methodologies to illuminate the subject. Topics
include the strategies and audiences of crusading romances, the
deployment by Chaucer and Gower of romance theme and style, a
re-evaluation of the text of Gamelyn, and the shifting generic
boundaries between romance, exemplum and legal narrative. Other
papers explore the transformation of traditional material on the
revenant dead and the divided family from ancient literary texts to
the prose romances of the sixteenth century. Dr ROSALIND FIELD
teachesin the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University
of London. Contributors: JUDITH WEISS, STEPHEN KNIGHT, NOEL JAMES
MENUGE, DIANE SPEED, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, ROBERT
WARM, JOERG FICHTE, NANCY MASON BRADBURY, JEREMY DIMMICK, ELIZABETH
ARCHIBALD, HELEN COOPER
Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance -
and medieval romances as objects themselves. Medieval romance
narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and
exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors'
swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance,
however, is also agenre in which such objects make meaning on
numerous levels, and not always in predictable ways. These new
essays examine from diverse perspectives how romances respond to
material culture, but also show how romance as a genre helps to
constitute and transmit that culture. Focusing on romances
circulating in Britain and Ireland between the twelfth and
sixteenth centuries, individual chapters address such questions as
the relationship between objects and protagonists in romance
narrative; the materiality of male and female bodies; the
interaction between visual and verbal representations of romance;
poetic form and manuscript textuality; and how a nineteenth-century
edition of medieval romances provoked artists to homage and satire.
NICHOLAS PERKINS is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St
Hugh's College, University of Oxford. Contributors: Siobhain Bly
Calkin, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey, Neil
Cartlidge, Mark Cruse, Morgan Dickson, Rosalind Field, Elliot
Kendall, Megan G. Leitch, Henrike Manuwald, Nicholas Perkins, Ad
Putter, Raluca L. Radulescu, Robert Allen Rouse,
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