Perkins The gift of narrative in medieval England

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3992-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Written in a style accessible for students as well as scholars, it engages with questions about storytelling, agency, gender and material objects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perkins, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 The gift of narrative in the romances of Horn
2 ‘Kepe þou þat on & y þat oþer’: giving and keeping in Middle English romances
3 The traffic in people: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Troilus and Criseyde
4 Exchanging words and deeds: The Franklin’s Tale and The Manciple’s Tale
5 Things fall apart: the narratives of gift in Lydgate’s Troy Book
Conclusion
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Perkins is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford