Author: Linda Marie Zaerr
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 1843843234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.
Performance and the Middle English Romance
Author: Linda Marie Zaerr
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 1843843234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 1843843234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.
Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory
Author: Jamie McKinstry
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
An examination of the depiction and function of memory in a variety of romances, including Troilus and Criseyde and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
An examination of the depiction and function of memory in a variety of romances, including Troilus and Criseyde and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance
Author: Raluca L. Radulescu
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 184384270X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the Middle Ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre has defied precise definition, its subject matter ranging from tales of chivalric adventure, to saintly women, and monsters that become human. The essays in this collection provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 184384270X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the Middle Ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre has defied precise definition, its subject matter ranging from tales of chivalric adventure, to saintly women, and monsters that become human. The essays in this collection provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.
Performing Medieval Narrative
Author: Evelyn Birge Vitz
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A survey of an investigation into whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A survey of an investigation into whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.
Telling the Story in the Middle Ages
Author: Kathryn A. Duys
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843843919
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843843919
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.
The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance
Author: Ad Putter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317885554
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Middle English popular romances enjoyed a wide appeal in later medieval Britain, and even today students of medieval literature will encounter examples of the genre, such as Sir Orfeo, Sir Tristrem, and Sir Launfal. This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays is designed to meet the need for a stimulating guide to the genre. Each essay introduces one popular romance, setting it in its literary and historical contexts, and develops an original interpretation that reveals the possibilities that popular romances offer for modern literary criticism. A substantial introduction by the editors discusses the production and transmission of popular romances in the Middle Ages, and considers the modern reception of popular romance and the interpretative challenges offered by new theoretical approaches. Accessible to advanced students of English, this book is also of interest to those working in the field of medieval studies, comparative literature, and popular culture.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317885554
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Middle English popular romances enjoyed a wide appeal in later medieval Britain, and even today students of medieval literature will encounter examples of the genre, such as Sir Orfeo, Sir Tristrem, and Sir Launfal. This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays is designed to meet the need for a stimulating guide to the genre. Each essay introduces one popular romance, setting it in its literary and historical contexts, and develops an original interpretation that reveals the possibilities that popular romances offer for modern literary criticism. A substantial introduction by the editors discusses the production and transmission of popular romances in the Middle Ages, and considers the modern reception of popular romance and the interpretative challenges offered by new theoretical approaches. Accessible to advanced students of English, this book is also of interest to those working in the field of medieval studies, comparative literature, and popular culture.
The Exploitations of Medieval Romance
Author: Laura Ashe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843842122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843842122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500
Author: Larry Scanlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521841674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521841674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance
Author: Geraldine Barnes
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859913621
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Barnes contends that `rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of Middle English romance.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859913621
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Barnes contends that `rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of Middle English romance.
The Experience of Poetry
Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198833156
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance of poetry in western culture.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198833156
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance of poetry in western culture.