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Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and monster theory, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife examines a wide range of Anglo-American retellings and …
Zöopedagogies
Creatures as Teachers in Middle English Romance
Inbunden, 2018
2904 kr
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The human protagonists of medieval romance are works in progress. They are learners, taught by an unexpected set of teachers: non-human animals including horses, hawks, lions, and the various quarry of the hunt. These "creature teachers" show humans how to be more perfectly human—how to love, …
Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800
Av Juanita Ruys, Michael Champion m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
3173 kr
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Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 advances current interdisciplinary research in the history of emotions through in-depth studies of the European language of emotion from late antiquity to the modern period. Focusing specifically on the premodern cognates of ‘affect’ or ‘affection’ …
Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World
Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature
Inbunden, 2020
2466 kr
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Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, …
Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia
The Bard and the Rag-picker
Inbunden, 2021
3173 kr
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In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms, including Latinate Christian history and the biblical epic. These modes …
Liminality of Fairies
Readings in Late Medieval English and Scottish Romance
Av Piotr Spyra
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies with close readings of selected romance texts. Tracing different meanings and manifestations of …
Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World
Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, …
Polyphony and the Modern
Inbunden, 2021
3173 kr
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Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity.In The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living …
Zöopedagogies
Creatures as Teachers in Middle English Romance
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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The human protagonists of medieval romance are works in progress. They are learners, taught by an unexpected set of teachers: non-human animals including horses, hawks, lions, and the various quarry of the hunt. These "creature teachers" show humans how to be more perfectly human—how to love, …
From Medievalism to Early-Modernism
Adapting the English Past
Av Marina Gerzic, Aidan Norrie
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism—a new term introduced in this collection—present in contemporary popular …
Disability and Knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur
Av Tory Pearman
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Malory’s unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight’s physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability. …
Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
The Decameron Tradition
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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Through close readings of five Italian collections of novellas written over a 500-year period, Martin Marafioti explores the literary tradition of storytelling, and particularly its efficacy as a healing tool following traumatic visitations from the plague. In this study, Giovanni Boccaccio's …
Language and Community in Early England
Imagining Distance in Medieval Literature
Av Emily Butler
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies that development as a process of community building that occurred in a multilingual context. Moving through the eighth century to the thirteenth century, and finally to the sixteenth-century antiquarians who …
Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders
Homegrown Stereotypes and Foreign Influences
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book explores accounts in the Sagas of Icelanders of encounters with foreign peoples, both abroad and in Iceland, who are portrayed according to stereotypes which vary depending on their origins. Notably, inhabitants of the places identified in the sagas as Írland, Skotland and Vínland are …
Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia
The Bard and the Rag-picker
Häftad, 2023
799 kr
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In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms, including Latinate Christian history and the biblical epic. These modes …
Oral Epic
From Performance to Interpretation
Av Karl Reichl
Inbunden, 2021
3173 kr
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This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry.The leading question of the book is how the socio-cultural context of performance and the various performance elements contribute to the meaning of oral …
Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature
Häftad, 2021
816 kr
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Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented in literary texts of the Middle Ages. In contrast to previous approaches, this volume identifies new methods of interpreting conventional …
Liminality of Fairies
Readings in Late Medieval English and Scottish Romance
Av Piotr Spyra
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies with close readings of selected romance texts. Tracing different meanings and manifestations of …
Cultural Difference and Material Culture in Middle English Romance
Normans and Saxons
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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This book explores how the cultural distinctions and conflicts between Anglo-Saxons and Normans originating with the Norman Conquest of 1066 prevailed well into the fourteenth century and are manifest in a significant number of Middle English romances including King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Sir …
Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture
The Devil in the Latrine
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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This important new contribution to the history of the body analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of sin in medieval thought. Using a wide range of texts, including theology, historical documents, and literature from Augustine to Chaucer, the book shows how filth was regarded as …
Signifying Power of Pearl
Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre
Av Jane Beal
Häftad, 2019
530 kr
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This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of …
Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature
From Cædmon to Malory
Häftad, 2013
951 kr
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This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions. That is, medieval English writers could appropriate …
Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture
Conflicted Roles
Inbunden, 2014
2904 kr
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This innovative and multidisciplinary collection visits representations and interpretations of Mary Magdalene in the medieval and early modern periods, questioning major scholarly assumptions behind the examination of female saints and their depictions in medieval artworks, literature, and music. …
Cultural Difference and Material Culture in Middle English Romance
Normans and Saxons
Inbunden, 2013
2904 kr
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This book explores how the cultural distinctions and conflicts between Anglo-Saxons and Normans originating with the Norman Conquest of 1066 prevailed well into the fourteenth century and are manifest in a significant number of Middle English romances including King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Sir …
Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture
The Devil in the Latrine
Inbunden, 2011
3173 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This important new contribution to the history of the body analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of sin in medieval thought. Using a wide range of texts, including theology, historical documents, and literature from Augustine to Chaucer, the book shows how filth was regarded as …
Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature
From Cædmon to Malory
Inbunden, 2011
2904 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions. That is, medieval English writers could appropriate …
Polyphony and the Modern
Häftad, 2023
831 kr
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Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity.In The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living …
Oral Epic
From Performance to Interpretation
Av Karl Reichl
Häftad, 2023
813 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry.The leading question of the book is how the socio-cultural context of performance and the various performance elements contribute to the meaning of oral …
Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders
Homegrown Stereotypes and Foreign Influences
Häftad, 2023
746 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores accounts in the Sagas of Icelanders of encounters with foreign peoples, both abroad and in Iceland, who are portrayed according to stereotypes which vary depending on their origins. Notably, inhabitants of the places identified in the sagas as Írland, Skotland and Vínland are …
Avid Ears
Medieval Gossips, Sound and the Art of Listening
Häftad, 2021
816 kr
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Arguing that women’s "silencing" is in part the result of women’s voices being treated as the white noise of history, Avid Ears: Medieval Gossips, Sound, and the Art of Listening explores the historical representation of female voices as actual acoustic phenomena. The volume focuses on English …
