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1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) |
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Studies in medieval romance ; [22] |
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Introduction: Middle English romance: the motifs and the critics / Megan G. Leitch -- I. Romance disruptions. 1. Medieval romance mischief / Neil Cartlidge -- 2. Rewrtiting chivalric encounters: cultural anxieties and social critique in the fourteenth century / Marcel Elias -- 3. Malory's comedy / Christopher Cannon -- II. Romance and narrative strategies. 4. Beginning with the ending: narrative techniques and their significance in Chaucer's Knight's Tale / Jill Mann -- 5. The riddle of 'Apollonius': 'a book for Kin Richardes sake' / R.F. Yeager -- 6. Malory and the post-Vulgate cycle / Elizabeth Archibald -- 7. Towards a gestural lexicon of medieval English romance / Barry Windeatt -- III. Romance and spiritual priorities. 8. Giving freely in Sir Cleges: the economy of salvation and the gift of romance / Marco Nievergelt -- 9. From magic to miracle: reframing Chevalere Assigne / Miriam Edlich-Muth -- 10. Lifting the veil: voices, visions, and the destiny in Malory's Morte Darthur / Corinne Saunders -- IV. Late romance. 11. The intelligence of The Court of Love / Ad Putter -- 12. The Squirt of Low Degree and the penumbra of romance narrative in the early sixteenth century / Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards -- 13. Contested chivalry: youth at war in Walter Scott and Charlotte M. Yonge / Andrew Lynch |
| Summary |
New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation of medieval romance |
| Analysis |
Literature; European and World Literature: General Interest |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Romances, English -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Middle English
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Romances, English
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Literary criticism
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Festschriften
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Festschriften.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Archibald, Elizabeth, 1951- editor.
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Leitch, Megan G., editor
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Saunders, Corinne J., 1963- editor.
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Cooper, Helen, 1947- honouree.
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| ISBN |
9781787443341 |
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1787443345 |
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