The Exploitations of Medieval Romance - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843842122 ISBN 13 : 9781843842125

Editeur : D.S. Brewer, 2010

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.

JUDITH WEISS is a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, UK.

Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham.

NEIL CARTLIDGE is Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.S. Brewer
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843842122
• ISBN 13: 9781843842125
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Éditeur: Ashe Laura, Djordjevic Ivana, Weiss Judith
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible