The Routledge Companion To Medieval English Literature

Author : Raluca Radulescu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429588984
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature written by Raluca Radulescu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages. Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from leading academics in the field across linguistic and geographic divides. Extending beyond the traditional scholarly discussions of insularity in relation to Middle English literature and ‘isolationism’, this volume: Oversees a variety of genres and topics, including cultural identity, insular borders, linguistic interactions, literary gateways, Middle English texts and traditions, and modern interpretations such as race, gender studies, ecocriticism, and postcolonialism. Draws on the combined extensive experience of teaching and research in medieval English and comparative literature within and outside of anglophone higher education and looks to the future of this fast-paced area of literary culture. Contains an indispensable section on theoretical approaches to the study of literary texts. This Companion provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to medieval literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on English literature.

Author : Jennifer E. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317444760
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature written by Jennifer E. Boyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working across literature, history, theory and practice, this volume offers insight into the specific digital tools and interfaces, as well as the modalities, theories and forms, central to some of the most exciting new research and critical, scholarly and artistic production in medieval and pre-modern studies. Addressing more general themes and topics, such as digitzation, media studies, digital humanities and "big data," the new essays in this companion also focus on more than twenty-five keywords, such as "access," "code," "virtual," "interactivity" and "network." A useful website hosts examples, links and materials relevant to the book.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405171960
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500 written by Peter Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture,c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowlydefined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays onmedieval literature and culture. Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canonand conventional disciplinary boundaries. Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary betweenmedieval and early modern literature. Stresses the importance of constructing contexts for readingliterature. Explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialoguewith other cultural products, including the literature of othercountries, manuscripts and religion. Includes close readings of frequently-studied texts, includingtexts by Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Hoccleve. Confronts some of the controversies that exercise students ofmedieval literature, such as those connected with literary theory,love, and chivalry and war.

Author : Andrew Galloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521856892
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture written by Andrew Galloway and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.

Author : Larry Scanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521841674
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 written by Larry Scanlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.

Author : W. Michelle Wang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000220745
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature written by W. Michelle Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography, documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel, opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more – the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where “live with” itself might mean any number of things: from consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative, contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.

Author : Pamela King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317043650
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance written by Pamela King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades, radically altering critical approaches to form, genre, and canon. Drawing on disciplines from art history to musicology and reception studies, The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance reconsiders early "drama" as a mixed mode entertainment best studied not only alongside non-dramatic texts, but also other modes of performance. From performance before the playhouse to the afterlife of medieval drama in the contemporary avant-garde, this stunning collection of essays is divided into four sections: Northern European Playing before the Playhouse; Modes of Production and Reception; Reviewing the Anglophone Tradition; The Long Middle Ages Offering a much needed reassessment of what is generally understood as "English medieval drama", The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance provides an invaluable resource for both students and scholars of medieval studies.

Author : Mark Knight
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135051100
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion written by Mark Knight and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and comprehensive volume looks at the study of literature and religion from a contemporary critical perspective. Including discussion of global literature and world religions, this Companion looks at: Key moments in the story of religion and literary studies from Matthew Arnold through to the impact of 9/11 A variety of theoretical approaches to the study of religion and literature Different ways that religion and literature are connected from overtly religious writing, to subtle religious readings Analysis of key sacred texts and the way they have been studied, re-written, and questioned by literature Political implications of work on religion and literature Thoroughly introduced and contextualised, this volume is an engaging introduction to this huge and complex field.

Author : Ana Saez-Hidalgo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317043030
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower written by Ana Saez-Hidalgo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into three parts. The first part, "Working theories: medieval and modern," is devoted to the main theoretical aspects that frame Gower’s work, ranging from his use of medieval law, rhetoric, theology, and religious attitudes, to approaches incorporating gender and queer studies. The second part, "Things and places: material cultures," examines the cultural locations of the author, not only from geographical and political perspectives, or in scientific and economic context, but also in the transmission of his poetry through the materiality of the text and its reception. "Polyvocality: text and language," the third part, focuses on Gower’s trilingualism, his approach to history, and narratological and intertextual aspects of his works. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower is an essential resource for scholars and students of Gower and of Middle English literature, history, and culture generally.

Author : Ármann Jakobsson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131704147X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas written by Ármann Jakobsson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials. This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.