Space in Medieval Romance

Constructing Narrative Space in the Middle English Breton Lays
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-80952-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

This book explores the connections between space and narrative through an in-depth analysis of the fourteenth-century Middle English Breton lays. The work employs a range of critical approaches pertaining to the spatial turn and geocriticism and presents a nuanced account of the construction of narrative space in fourteenth-century English romance. In her study, Fanny Moghaddassi offers a theoretical reflection on the literary specificities of romance space, provides an examination of the social, political, and ideological tensions at work in its representation, and considers medieval practices of space, both from a collective and a more individual point of view.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moghaddassi, Fanny

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: General Introduction: Enter Space.- Chapter 2: Romance Bibliotopies.- Chapter 3: Romance Hyperspace.- Chapter 4: Romance Storyworlds.- Chapter 5: Social Encodings of Romance Space.- Chapter 6: Christian Encodings of Romance Space.- Chapter 7: Romance Socio-Spaces.- Chapter 8: Romance Bio-Geographies.- Chapter 9: Romance Geographies.- Chapter 10: Focalised Space.

Über Autor(innen)

Fanny Moghaddassi is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Strasbourg, France, where she has taught since 2007. In addition to founding several lecture series on Medieval Studies and the Renaissance, Moghaddassi co-organised the 18th Biennial Romance in Medieval Britain Conference in April 2024. Her publications include (2010).