Textual Traditions and Medieval Literary Culture

Essays in Honour of Siân Echard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Essays illuminating how medieval cultures and identities have influenced later authors, texts, and communities.How did medieval literary cultures shape, and how were they shaped by, their received textual traditions? And how have cultures continued to respond to the inherited medieval tradition in later eras? This volume explores these important questions, considering how language and literature mediate the narration of history or culture - especially the culture and identity of Britain.In addressing the overarching concern of the conception of the past in the literatures of medieval Britain, and the later reception of medieval texts, the contributors' essays respond to the diverse areas of medieval studies upon which Professor Echard's work has had significant influence. They address, amongst other subjects, Arthuriana and "Matter of Britain" texts, the literary interrelationships between medieval Wales and England, medieval adaptations and interpretations of texts from classical antiquity, the poet John Gower, and medievalism in later centuries. As Professor Echard has consistently demonstrated in these fields, and as these essays overwhelmingly confirm, the past is rarely, if ever, represented at face value in the cultural products that lay claim to it.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-07
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:578 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9781843846987

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WILLIAM GREEN is Instructor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia. DANIEL HELBERT is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Literature and Languages at Young Harris College. NOËLLE PHILLIPS is Instructor of English at Douglas College and Honorary Affiliate Lecturer at the University of British Columbia. ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. Helen Fulton is Chair of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history. R.F. YEAGER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Language, University of West Florida.

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List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction - William Green, Daniel Helbert, and Noëlle PhillipsPart INavigating Multilingualism: Medieval British Languages in Contact1. Gormes and Ysgymun in the Dingestow Brut - Joshua Byron Smith 2. Melioratum et Emendatum: Rewriting, Polishing, and Textual Fluidity among Twelfth- and Thirteenth-century Latin and Welsh Writers in Britain - Paul Russell3. Precarious Reimaginings of the British History in the English Brut Tradition - John J. Thompson4. The Weight that English Carries: Vernacularity from Hali Meiðhad to Chaucer's House of Fame - Andrew GallowayPart IIGower's Books and Books of Gower5. Gower's Ovidian Aesthetic and its Discontents - R. F. Yeager6. Gower's Allusive Forms: Anaphora and Political Desire in the Visio Anglie - Stephanie Batkie7. Gower and the Heavens: The 'Dull' and the Divine in Confessio Amantis - William Green8. A Knight at the Roxburghe (Club): George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower and the Textual Transmission of Balades and Other Poems by John Gower - David WattPart IIIHeroes and their Afterlives9. The Idea of Beowulf and the 'Book Beautiful' - Elaine Treharne10. Trojan Ghosts in Arthurian Romance - Elizabeth Archibald11. In Defence of British History: Sir John Prise, King Arthur, and the Tudors - Helen Fulton12. Boys Gone Wild: Britain's Mythic Tradition in America's Boys' Clubs - Martin B. Shichtman and Laurie A. FinkeAnnotated Bibliography of Siân Echard's Publications - Mairi Hill and Kelsey MoskalIndexTabula Gratulatoria