Language and Piety in Middle English Romance - Couverture rigide

Dalrymple, Roger

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0859915980 ISBN 13 : 9780859915984

Editeur : D.S. Brewer, 2000

Synopsis

Analysis of pious formulae across a range of medieval romance, illuminating their stylistic purpose. Middle English romances exhibit a distinctive piety, and yet were maligned by medieval moralists. Dalrymple seeks an answer to this apparent contradiction by drawing attention to the genre's myriad invocations of God and Christ, its pious formulae. Criticism to date has tended to view prayers and vows to "him that bore the crown of thorns" or to "him that bought us with his blood" as stock line-fillers drawn upon for metrical ease. Yet, based upon a catalogue of the formulae, the book argues that in romances such as the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Guy of Warwick they encode a rich and resonant fund of devotional imagery which when harnessed to aesthetic use provoke a strong affective charge, conflating piety and blasphemy. In analysing the changing functions of pious formulae across a range of romances, the author aims to illuminate their neglected stylistic role, and to broaden understanding ofthe piety of the medieval English romances. ROGER DALRYMPLE lectures at Oxford Brookes University.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roger Dalrymple is Deputy Director and Professor in the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.S. Brewer
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0859915980
• ISBN 13: 9780859915984
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
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