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This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical matrix of similar themes and characters. As single narratives, they are thought of as random collections of events loosely structured in chronological succession. Susan Wittig, however, offers evidence that the romances are carefully ordered (although not always consciously so) according to a series of formulaic patterns and that their structures serve as vehicles for certain essential cultural patterns and are important to the preservation of some community-held beliefs. The analysis begins on a stylistic level, and the same theoretical principles applied to the linguistic formulas of the poems also serve as a model for the study of narrative structures. The author finds that there are laws that govern the creation, selection, and arrangement of narrative materials in the romance genre and that act to restrict innovation and control the narrative form. The reasons for this strict control are to be found in the functional relationship of the genre to the culture that produced it. The deep structure of the romance is viewed as a problem-solving pattern that enables the community to mediate important contradictions within its social, economic, and mythic structures. Wittig speculates that these contradictions may lie in the social structures of kinship and marriage and that they have been restructured in the narratives in a “practical” myth: the concept of power gained through the marriage alliance, and the reconciliation of the contradictory notions of marriage for power’s sake and marriage for love’s sake. This advanced, thorough, and completely original study will be valuable to medieval specialists, classicists, linguists, folklorists, and Biblical scholars working in oral-formulaic narrative structure.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Susan Wittig |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Release |
: 2014-08-27 |
File |
: 234 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780292766556 |
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This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical matrix of similar themes and characters. As single narratives, they are thought of as random collections of events loosely structured in chronological succession. Susan Wittig, however, offers evidence that the romances are carefully ordered (although not always consciously so) according to a series of formulaic patterns and that their structures serve as vehicles for certain essential cultural patterns and are important to the preservation of some community-held beliefs. The analysis begins on a stylistic level, and the same theoretical principles applied to the linguistic formulas of the poems also serve as a model for the study of narrative structures. The author finds that there are laws that govern the creation, selection, and arrangement of narrative materials in the romance genre and that act to restrict innovation and control the narrative form. The reasons for this strict control are to be found in the functional relationship of the genre to the culture that produced it. The deep structure of the romance is viewed as a problem-solving pattern that enables the community to mediate important contradictions within its social, economic, and mythic structures. Wittig speculates that these contradictions may lie in the social structures of kinship and marriage and that they have been restructured in the narratives in a “practical” myth: the concept of power gained through the marriage alliance, and the reconciliation of the contradictory notions of marriage for power’s sake and marriage for love’s sake. This advanced, thorough, and completely original study will be valuable to medieval specialists, classicists, linguists, folklorists, and Biblical scholars working in oral-formulaic narrative structure.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Susan Wittig |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Release |
: 2014-10-01 |
File |
: 234 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780292766532 |
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: |
Author |
: Noreen Deane Moran |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1984 |
File |
: 192 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: OCLC:1242925073 |
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Interest in the literary form of romance has greatly increased over the past few years and begins to equal that of tragedy. Romance is seen as a potent model of life equal but opposite to tragedy. The modern widespread realisation that art its most powerful is not necessarily a direct realistic 'imitation' or mimesis of ordinary life, together with the accompanying interest in fantasy, folktale and science fiction, have all opened out new vistas of literary experience.
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Genre |
: English literature |
Author |
: Derek Brewer |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Release |
: 1988 |
File |
: 216 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0859912477 |
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First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and dominant themes rather than source-material or language.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Dieter Mehl |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2010-10-18 |
File |
: 320 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781136832239 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Jamie McKinstry |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Release |
: 2015 |
File |
: 291 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781843844174 |
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Wide-ranging essays engaging with all aspects of medieval romance, from textual studies to historical sources.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Literary Collections |
Author |
: Carol M. Meale |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Release |
: 1994 |
File |
: 250 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0859914046 |
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Starting with the European roots of romance, Dr Barron devotes the main body of his book to a detailed study of the English corpus. He discusses its rich variety of forms in the later Middle Ages, concluding that the English romances show their own conception of the romantic `mode'.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: William Raymond Johnston Barron |
Publisher |
: Longman Publishing Group |
Release |
: 1987 |
File |
: 310 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39076000894332 |
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Genre |
: English poetry |
Author |
: Margaret Denslow Kissam |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1977 |
File |
: 716 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: OCLC:53382247 |
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Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field. Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts. Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d’Arthur. Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form. Each critical concern can be used as the basis for one week’s work in a semester-long course. Enables readers to forge new connections between different approaches.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Roger Dalrymple |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Release |
: 2008-04-15 |
File |
: 288 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780470755440 |