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Book Ballads of the North  Medieval to Modern

Download or read book Ballads of the North Medieval to Modern written by Sandra Ballif Straubhaar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is intended as a belated but heartfelt thank-you and Gedenkschrift to the late Larry Syndergaard (1936-2015), long-time professor of English at Western Michigan University and Fellow of the Kommission für Volksdichtung (International Ballad Commission). Larry’s contributions down the decades to ballad studies--particularly Scandinavian and Anglophone--included dozens of papers and articles, as well as his supremely useful book, English Translations of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballads. As David Atkinson and Thomas A. McKean of the Kommission have written (May 2015): “Larry... was a sound scholar with a penetrating mind which he used to support, encourage and befriend others, rather than show off his own knowledge. He will be remembered for his contributions to international balladry, especially for providing a bridge between the English- and Scandinavian-language ballads.” Larry’s particular fascination with the vernacular ballads of the northern medieval world are reflected in this collection; topics here range from plot elements such as demonic whales, otherworldly antagonists, and mer-people to thematic issues of genre, religion and sexual mores. As a tribute to the global influence of Larry’s scholarship and the broad academic interest in medieval ballads, the essays in this volume were contributed by twelve international scholars of narrative song based in Europe, North America and Australia.

Book The Medieval Popular Ballad

Download or read book The Medieval Popular Ballad written by Johannes Christoffer Hagemann Reinhardt Steenstrup and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medieval Popular Ballad

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christoffer Hagemann Reinhardt Steens
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781019491096
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Medieval Popular Ballad written by Christoffer Hagemann Reinhardt Steens and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work on the popular ballads of medieval Europe remains essential reading for anyone interested in the history of folk music. Steenstrup's meticulous scholarship sheds light on the origins, themes, and performance traditions of these beloved songs, offering a glimpse into a rich and vibrant cultural world that continues to captivate listeners to this day. Scholars of literature, history, and musicology will find much to admire in this groundbreaking study. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Arthur of the North

Download or read book The Arthur of the North written by Marianne E. Kalinke and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a comprehensive survey of medieval and early modern Arthurian literature in the Scandinavian countries The book analyses the transmission of a foreign courtly literature in the non-courtly culture of Iceland The book surveys the acculturation of foreign narrative and style to indigenous literary forms in the North

Book The Medieval Popular Ballad

Download or read book The Medieval Popular Ballad written by J. Steenstrup and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gender and Song in Early Modern England

Download or read book Gender and Song in Early Modern England written by Leslie C. Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Bringing together ongoing work in musicology, literary studies, and film studies, it elaborates an interdisciplinary consideration of the embodied and gendered facets of song, and of song’s capacity to function as a powerful-and flexible-gendered signifier. The essays in this collection draw vivid attention to song as a situated textual and musical practice, and to the gendered processes and spaces of song's circulation and reception. In so doing, they interrogate the literary and cultural significance of song for early modern readers, performers, and audiences.

Book The Medieval Popular Ballad

Download or read book The Medieval Popular Ballad written by Johannes C. H. R. Steenstrup and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medieval Popular Ballad

Download or read book The Medieval Popular Ballad written by Johannes C. H. R. (Johannes Steenstrup and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Niels Ebbesen  and Germand Gladenswayne  Two Ballads

Download or read book Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne Two Ballads written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following book contains two poems inspired by two real-life figures: Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne. Ebbesen was a Danish squire and national hero, known for his killing of Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg. Gladenswayne was a Danish folk hero, born from a royal couple who was fated to die in the hands of a monster.

Book Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

Download or read book Publications of the Modern Language Association of America written by Modern Language Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.

Book Handbook of Pre Modern Nordic Memory Studies

Download or read book Handbook of Pre Modern Nordic Memory Studies written by Jürg Glauser and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic Studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-modern Nordic world (mainly the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, but including as well both earlier and later periods). Given that Memory Studies is an ever expanding critical strategy, the approximately eighty contributors in this volume also discuss the potential for future research in this area. Topics covered range from texts to performance to visual and other aspects of material culture, all approached from within an interdisciplinary framework. International specialists, coming from such relevant fields as archaeology, mythology, history of religion, folklore, history, law, art, literature, philology, language, and mediality, offer assessments on the relevance of Memory Studies to their disciplines and show it at work in case studies. Finally, this handbook demonstrates the various levels of culture where memory had a critical impact in the pre-modern North and how deeply embedded the role of memory is in the material itself.

Book Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe  1500 1800

Download or read book Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe 1500 1800 written by Feike Dietz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years many historians have argued that the Reformation did not - as previously thought - hamper the development of Northern European visual culture, but rather gave new impetus to the production, diffusion and reception of visual materials in both Catholic and Protestant milieus. This book investigates the crosscurrents of exchange in the realm of illustrated religious literature within and beyond confessional and national borders, and against the background of recent insights into the importance of, on the one hand material, as well as on the other hand, sensual and emotional aspects of early modern culture. Each chapter in the volume helps illuminate early modern religious culture from the perspective of the production of illustrated religious texts - to see the book as object, a point at which various vectors of early modern society met. Case studies, together with theoretical contributions, shed light on the ways in which illustrated religious books functioned in evolving societies, by analysing the use, re-use and sharing of illustrated religious texts in England, France, the Low Countries, the German States, and Switzerland. Interpretations based on points of material interaction show us how the most basic binaries of the early modern world - Catholic and Protestant, word and image, public and private - were disrupted and negotiated in the realm of the illustrated religious book. Through this approach, the volume expands the historical appreciation of the place of imagery in post-Reformation Europe.

Book English Translations of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballads

Download or read book English Translations of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballads written by Larry E. Syndergaard and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table V: Translations from the Swedish, s. 183-201.

Book Ballad Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. B. Lyle
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Ballad Studies written by E. B. Lyle and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains material on the music of the ballads.

Book Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry

Download or read book Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry written by Andrew Duncan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does what is true depend on where you are? or, can we speak of a British culture which varies gradually over the 600 miles from one end of the island to the other, with currents gradually mutating and turning into their opposites as they cross such a distance? In Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry Andrew Duncan (a published poet himself) identifies distinctive traditions in three regions of the Britsh Isles providing a polemic tour of Scotland, Wales, and the North of England while revealing the struggle for ‘cultural assets’. The book exposes the possibility that the finest poets of the last 50 years have lived in the outlands, not networking and neglecting to acquire linguistic signs of status. Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry provides insightful accounts of major poets such as Sorley Maclean, Glyn Jones, Colin Simms, and Michael Haslam.

Book Medieval Ballads

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  • Author : Gwendolyn A. Morgan
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Medieval Ballads written by Gwendolyn A. Morgan and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan's critical introduction establishes a social and historical context for the ballads of chivalry and romance and a general framework for their reading.

Book Heroic Sagas and Ballads

Download or read book Heroic Sagas and Ballads written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia. Central to his argument is the view that these heroic texts should be studied in the light of the later Icelandic Middle Ages rather than that of the Viking age, although the stories, the tellers, and the audiences are clearly concerned with exactly this period of Scandinavian history. Viewing these sagas as the products of highly diverse forms of inspiration and creation—some oral, some written—Mitchell explores their aesthetic and social dimensions, demonstrating their function both as entertainment and as a literature with a more serious purpose, one with deep roots in Nordic literary consciousness. The traditions that these sagas relate possessed an importance beyond the temporal and geographical confines of medieval Iceland, and Heroic Sagas and Ballads considers the process by which these heroic materials were subsequently recast as metrical romances in Iceland and as ballads throughout the rest of Scandinavia. It is ultimately concerned with much more than just those stories that inspired such modern writers as Richard Wagner and H. Rider Haggard; its anthropological and folkloric approach to the legendary sagas shows how the extraliterary dimensions of medieval texts can be explored. Heroic Sagas and Ballads addresses issues of central importance to medievalists, folklorists, comparatists, Scandinavianists, and students of the ballad.