The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-108-74958-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Cambridge Companions to Literature

This new Companion provides a broad and perceptive overview of the most important vernacular literary genre of the Middle Ages. Freshly commissioned, original chapters from seventeen leading scholars introduce students and general readers to the form's poetics, narrative voice and manuscript contexts, as well as its relationship to the Mediterranean world, race, gender and the emotions, among many other topics. Providing fresh perspectives on the first pan-European literary movement, essays range across a broad geographical area, including England, France, Italy, Germany and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as a varied linguistic spectrum, including Arabic, Hebrew and Yiddish. Exploring the celebration of chivalric ideals and courtly refinements, the volume excavates the tensions and traumas lying beneath decorous surface appearances. An introduction, bibliography of texts and translations as well as chapter-by-chapter reading lists complete this essential guide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krueger, Roberta L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Roberta L. Krueger; 1. For love and for lovers': the origins of romance Laura Ashe; 2. The manuscript contexts of medieval romance Keith Busby; 3. Matters of form: experiments in verse and prose romance Jane Gilbert and Ad Putter; 4. Authors, narrators, and their stories in Old French romance Sylvie Lefèvre (translated by Roberta L. Krueger); 5. Arthurian transformations Elizabeth Archibald; 6. Romance and the medieval Mediterranean Sharon Kinoshita; 7. The crusading romance in Britain: religious violence and the transformation of popular chivalric narrative Lee Manion; 8. 'Making race' in medieval romance: a premodern critical race studies perspective Nahir I. Otaño Gracia; 9. The construction and interrogation of gender in Old French romance Kathy M. Krause; 10. Emotions as the language of romance Megan Moore; 11. Medieval Iberian romance David A. Wacks; 12. Medieval and early modern Italian romance Laura Chuhan Campbell; 13. German medieval romance Albrecht Classen; 14. The ends of romance in Chaucer and Malory Patricia Clare Ingham; 15. French romance in the late middle ages and the renaissance Jane H.M. Taylor; 16. Romance in historical context: literature and the changing values and norms of aristocratic society Craig Taylor; 17. Romance in twentieth and twenty-first century popular culture Susan Aronstein.

Über Autor(innen)

Krueger, Roberta L
Roberta L. Krueger is the author of Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance (Cambridge University Press, 1993), editor of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (2000) and co-editor of Cultural Performances in Medieval France (2007). She has published widely on medieval romance, conduct literature, Marie de France, and Christine de Pizan. With Jane H. M. Taylor, she has translated Jean de Saintré: A Medieval Education in Love and Chivalry (2014). She is co-founder of the Medieval Feminist Newsletter (1985), now the Medieval Feminist Forum.