Boundaries in medieval romance
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Boundaries in medieval romance
（Studies in medieval romance / series editors, Roger Dalrymple, Corinne Saunders）
D.S. Brewer, 2008
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"In April 2004, the 9th Biennial Medieval Romance Conference took place at Newman House ... University College Dublin"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance.
Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibilities implicit in boundaries - not only the geographical, political and cultural frontiers that medieval romances imagine and imply, but also more metaphorical demarcations. It is these boundaries, as they appear in insular romances circulating in English and French, which the essays in this volume address. They include the boundary between reality and fictionality; boundaries between different literary traditions, modes and cultures; and boundaries between different kinds of experience or perception, especially the "altered states" associated with sickness, magic, the supernatural, or the divine.
CONTRIBUTORS: HELEN COOPER, ROSALIND FIELD, MARIANNE AILES, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, ELIZABETH BERLINGS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, ARLYN DIAMOND, ROBERT ROUSE, LAURA ASHE, JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, CORINNE SAUNDERS
Table of Contents
- Introduction When Romance Comes True - Helen Cooper The Curious History of the Matter of England - Rosalind Field How English are the English Charlemagne Romances? - Phillipa Hardman and Marianne Ailes The Sege of Melayne
- or, How the French Screwed Up and 'Oure Brettons Rescued Them - Elizabeth Berlings Romance Society and its Discontents: Romance Motifs and Romance Consequence s in The Song of Dermot and the Normans in Ireland - Simon Meecham-Jones England, Ireland and Iberia in Olyuer of Castylle: The View from Burgundy - Elizabeth Williams The Alliterative Siege of Jerusalem: The Poetics of Destruction - Arlyn Diamond The Peace of the Roads: Authority and auctoritas in Medieval Romance - Robert Rouse The Hero and his Realm in Medieval English Romance - Laura Ashe The Courteous Warrior: Epic, Romance and Comedy in Boeve de Haumtone - Judith Weiss Rewriting Divine Favour - Ivana Djordjevic Bodily Narratives: Illness, Medicine and Healing in Middle English Romance - Corinne Saunders
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