Download or read book The Nature of Medieval Narrative written by University of Western Ontario. Department of French and published by Lexington, Ky. : French Forum. This book was released on 1980 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West written by Elizabeth M. Tyler and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers gathered in this volume were all given in 1999 - at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds and during a day conference held at York. They agree that looking at the wide range of narrative forms available provides new ways of viewing the Middle Ages.
Download or read book Medieval Narrative written by Tony Davenport and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the variety of medieval narrative, intended both for students and more general readers who already know some of the classics of the Middle Ages, such as Beowulf, the Decameron and The Canterbury Tales,, and who wish to venture further. Medieval definitions and theories of narrative are considered in relation to modern narratology and the major medieval types of narrative are discussed. The perspective in this book is mainly English, with Chaucer as a central figure, but it refers to a range of well-known European texts and writers, such as Marie de France, Cretien de Troyes, the Niebelungenlied, the Poem of the Cid, Dante and Boccaccio.
Download or read book Performing Medieval Narrative written by Evelyn Birge Vitz and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of an investigation into whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.
Download or read book Medieval Narrative written by Margaret Schlauch and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries written by Piero Boitani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-07-31 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this detailed study of English narrative verse the author describes and analyses the undisputed masterpieces of narrative (such as the works of the Gawain poet, Langland, Gower and Chaucer), as well as anonymous romances and specimens of religious and comic narrative which form the background to more well-known poems.
Download or read book Medieval Narrative written by Margaret Schlauch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Medieval Narrative: A Book of Translations This book has grown out of the needs of an undergraduate course in medieval literature. Any such course, even the most elementary, must be comparative in its nature, because of the intricate borrowing and lending of narrative material from one country to another during the Middle Ages. Any student who would work in this field must have no inconsiderable linguistic equipment; but this requirement is, unfortunately, an insuper able barrier in the case of most American undergraduates. One would like to assume, for instance, that all of them can read at least modern French and German by their junior and senior years, but many of them fail to meet even this modest qualifica tion, to say nothing of Old French and Middle High German. This is the more unfortunate smce the subject matter of me dieval narrative - the Nibelung cycle, the Grail stories, the Tris tan legend, and all the lore of Arthurian romances - appeals strongly to undergraduate classes, as anyone who has taught this material knows; perhaps because they come to it with a certain freshness, and find it unhackneyed in comparison with the more familiar classical legends. But enthusiasm is not enough when one is dealing with texts in Old French, Old Icelandic, Middle Dutch, and Medieval Latin; and in the face of the linguistic deficiency of college students a teacher is forced to rely on translations for class use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Absent Narratives Manuscript Textuality and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England written by E. Scala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-08-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absent Narratives is a book about the defining difference between medieval and modern stories. In chapters devoted to the major writers of the late medieval period - Chaucer, Gower, the Gawain -poet and Malory - it presents and then analyzes a set of unique and unnoticed phenomena in medieval narrative, namely the persistent appearance of missing stories: stories implied, alluded to, or fragmented by a larger narrative. Far from being trivial digressions or passing curiosities, these absent narratives prove central to the way these medieval works function and to why they have affected readers in particular ways. Traditionally unseen, ignored, or explained away by critics, absent narratives offer a valuable new strategy for reading medieval texts and the historically specific textual culture in which they were written.
Download or read book Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England written by Lisa H. Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study to articulate the vital presence of artisans and craft labor in medieval English literature from c.1000-1483.
Download or read book Medieval Narratives and Modern Narratology written by Evelyn Birge Vitz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very interesting collection of topics that centers on critical methodologies and the central problems of medieval alterity.
Download or read book Consolation in Medieval Narrative written by C. Schrock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The first of its kind, this study traces this widely used narrative tradition to Augustine's two great histories: Confessions and City of God .
Download or read book Shifts and Transpositions in Medieval Narrative written by Karen Pratt and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the relationship between tradition and innovation in a number of medieval romances.
Download or read book Narrative Subversion in Medieval Literature written by E.L. Risden and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling. But the unexpected overturning of narrative progress creates complexity and interest, directing the reader's attention to the most powerful elements of a story. Exile, for example, upsets a protagonist's hopes for a happy earthly life, emphasizing spiritual perception instead. Waking life interrupts dreams, just as dreams may redirect how one lives. Focusing on medieval literature, this study explores how narrative subversion works in such well known stories as Beowulf, Piers Plowman, Le Morte D'Arthur, The Canterbury Tales, Troylus and Criseyde, "Voluspa" and other Old Norse sagas, Grail quest romances, and many others.
Download or read book Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative written by Suzanne M. Yeager and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of the political, religious and literary uses of representations of the holy city in the fourteenth century.
Download or read book Medieval narrative written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England written by Matthew Fisher and published by Interventions: New Studies Med. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on new readings of some of the least-read texts by some of the best-known scribes of later medieval England, Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England reconceptualizes medieval scribes as authors, and the texts surviving in medieval manuscripts as authored. Culling evidence from history writing in later medieval England, Matthew Fisher concludes that we must reject the axiomatic division between scribe and author. Using the peculiarities of authority and intertextuality unique to medieval historiography, Fisher exposes the rich ambiguities of what it means for medieval scribes to "write" books. He thus frames the composition, transmission, and reception--indeed, the authorship--of some medieval texts as scribal phenomena. History writing is an inherently intertextual genre: in order to write about the past, texts must draw upon other texts. Scribal Authorship demonstrates that medieval historiography relies upon quotation, translation, and adaptation in such a way that the very idea that there is some line that divides author from scribe is an unsustainable and modern critical imposition. Given the reality that a scribe's work was far more nuanced than the simplistic binary of error and accuracy would suggest, Fisher completely overturns many of our assumptions about the processes through which manuscripts were assembled and texts (both canonical literature and the less obviously literary) were composed.
Download or read book Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages written by Ruth Morse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval assumptions about the nature of the representation involved in literary and historical narratives were widely different from our own. Writers and readers worked with a complex understanding of the relations between truth and convention, in which accounts of presumed fact could be expanded, embellished, or translated in a variety of accepted ways.
