The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England - Couverture souple

Perkins, Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526167166 ISBN 13 : 9781526167163

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2023

Synopsis

This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in romances: through exchanges of objects and people; repeated patterns of love, loyalty and revenge; promises made or broken; and the complex effects that time works on such objects, exchanges and promises. Ranging from the twelfth century to the fifteenth, and including close discussions of poetry by Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet and romances in the Auchinleck Manuscript, this book will prompt new ideas and debate amongst students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as anyone curious about the pleasures that romance narratives bring.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nicholas Perkins is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526167166
• ISBN 13: 9781526167163
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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