Expectations of Romance: The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England - Couverture rigide

Furrow, Melissa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843842076 ISBN 13 : 9781843842071

Editeur : D.S. Brewer, 2009

Synopsis

"An important and powerful meditation on romance genre, reception and ethical/moral purpose -- amongst many other aspects of romance." Professor ROBERT ROUSE, University of British Columbia. Medieval readers, like modern ones, differed in whether they saw "noble storie, and worthie for to drawen to memorie" in romance, or "drasty rymyng, nat worth a toord." This book tackles the task of discerning what were the medieval expectations of the genre in England: the evidence, and the implications. Safe for monastic, trained readers, romances provided moral examples. But not all readers saw that role as valid, desirable, or to the point, and not all readers were monks. Working from what was central to medieval readers' concept of the genre from the twelfth century onward, the book sees the changing linguistic, literary, religious and political contexts through such heterogeneous lenses as Denis Piramus, Robert Manning, and Walter Map; Guy of Warwick and Guenevere; chansons de geste and fabliaux; Tristram and Isolde and John Gower's uses of the pair as exemplary; Geoffrey Chaucer as reader and writer of romance; and the Lollards, clergy, and didacts of the fifteenth century. MELISSA FURROW is Professor of English at Dalhousie University.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

`An important and powerful meditation on romance genre, reception and ethical/moral purpose -- amongst many other aspects of romance.' Professor ROBERT ROUSE, University of British Columbia. Medieval readers, like modern ones, differed in whether they saw `noble storie, and worthie for to drawen to memorie' in romance, or `drasty rymyng, nat worth a toord'. This book tackles the task of discerning what were the medieval expectations of the genre in England: the evidence, and the implications. Safe for monastic, trained readers, romances provided moral examples. But not all readers saw that role as valid, desirable, or to the point, and not all readers were monks. Working from what was central to medieval readers' concept of the genre from the twelfth century onward, the book sees the changing linguistic, literary, religious and political contexts through such heterogeneous lenses as Denis Piramus, Robert Manning, and Walter Map; Guy of Warwick and Guenevere; chansons de geste and fabliaux; Tristram and Isolde and John Gower's uses of the pair as exemplary; Geoffrey Chaucer as reader and writer of romance, and the Lollards, clergy, and didacts of the fifteenth century.

Biographie de l'auteur

MELISSA FURROW is Professor of English at Dalhousie University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.S. Brewer
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843842076
• ISBN 13: 9781843842071
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible