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Chester's Minstrel Army: A Revisionary History
Early Middle EnglishAbstract: The article examines how, late in King John's reign, the constable of Chester led a hastily assembled army, which included minstrels ( histriones ) and cobblers, to rescue Earl Ranulf III (whose legendary exploits were to entertain Langland's Sloth) from a superior Welsh force.
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Social Text, 1979
imperative task of transformation, of counterresistance to the resistance of the Real world, to the quest of the marked excluded blacks to affirm themselves. This culture, perceived as a threat by the dominant order, was marginalized and contained by the fabrication of the minstrel stereotype.
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imperative task of transformation, of counterresistance to the resistance of the Real world, to the quest of the marked excluded blacks to affirm themselves. This culture, perceived as a threat by the dominant order, was marginalized and contained by the fabrication of the minstrel stereotype.
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2008
Abstract Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W. B. Yeats’s literary life and the most integral to his poetry and drama, Ronald Schuchard’s The Last Minstrels provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the poet’s lifelong attempt to restore an oral tradition by ...
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Abstract Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W. B. Yeats’s literary life and the most integral to his poetry and drama, Ronald Schuchard’s The Last Minstrels provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the poet’s lifelong attempt to restore an oral tradition by ...
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2008
Abstract Immersed as he was in Senate affairs, the writing and revisions of A Vision, the struggle to reclaim the Hugh Lane pictures for Ireland, and his many literary and theatrical activities, Yeats was not attentive to the development of wireless broadcasting in the 1920s as a wondrous medium for taking the living voice of the poet to
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Abstract Immersed as he was in Senate affairs, the writing and revisions of A Vision, the struggle to reclaim the Hugh Lane pictures for Ireland, and his many literary and theatrical activities, Yeats was not attentive to the development of wireless broadcasting in the 1920s as a wondrous medium for taking the living voice of the poet to
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Minstrelization and Nationhood
2017This essay argues that the long-acknowledged first example of U.S. blackface minstrelsy, a song entitled “Backside Albany” or “The Siege of Plattsburgh,” was crucially shaped by its war of 1812 origins. By extension, the essay also argues that blackface minstrelsy can then be understood as one of the effects of the War of 1812.
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German 'minstrels' and their travels
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2000openaire +1 more source