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The Beginnings of Medieval Romance
2002Up to the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which were held to convey the truth. The second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre, the romance, which was consciously conceived as fictional and therefore allowed largely to break free ...
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2017
Chapter 4 provides commentaries on Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, The Eve of Saint Mark, and “La Belle Dame sans Merci.” Still concerned with problems of love, Keats devotes Isabella to discrediting the high-flown sentimentality of Hunt’s Story of Rimini; and in The Eve of St.
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Chapter 4 provides commentaries on Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, The Eve of Saint Mark, and “La Belle Dame sans Merci.” Still concerned with problems of love, Keats devotes Isabella to discrediting the high-flown sentimentality of Hunt’s Story of Rimini; and in The Eve of St.
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2023
The story of the medieval Romance on the Iberian Peninsula is a bit more complicated than that we read in traditional histories of Spanish or Catalan literature. Hebrew and Arabic authors also wrote texts that could be classified as romances some years before the Castilian Grail and Amadís.
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The story of the medieval Romance on the Iberian Peninsula is a bit more complicated than that we read in traditional histories of Spanish or Catalan literature. Hebrew and Arabic authors also wrote texts that could be classified as romances some years before the Castilian Grail and Amadís.
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The European Legacy, 2013
A reader expecting from this book another account of the history and folkloric origins of fairies is in for a surprise, though what it offers instead is no less interesting.
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A reader expecting from this book another account of the history and folkloric origins of fairies is in for a surprise, though what it offers instead is no less interesting.
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Romance in/and the Medieval Mediterranean
2018This chapter expands the traditional classification of medieval French romance by proposing ‘Mediterranean’ as a thematic category alongside ‘Antique’ and ‘Breton’. In addition to their geographical setting, ‘Mediterranean’ romances feature themes such as sea voyages, merchants, pirates, mutable identities, and the changes of fortune occasioned by the ...
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1979
Despite the fashionable standing of irony in studies of modern literature and its occasional application to medieval studies in a number of recent works, no sustained analysis of this phenomenon has yet been attempted for medieval literature. Professor Green attempts to fill the most important part of this lacuna by discussing irony in the medieval ...
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Despite the fashionable standing of irony in studies of modern literature and its occasional application to medieval studies in a number of recent works, no sustained analysis of this phenomenon has yet been attempted for medieval literature. Professor Green attempts to fill the most important part of this lacuna by discussing irony in the medieval ...
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Boundaries in Medieval Romance. Studies in Medieval Romance, 6
The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2009openaire +1 more source