The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
Seiten
2023
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6716-3 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6716-3 (ISBN)
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. -- .
This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in romances: through exchanges of objects and people; repeated patterns of love, loyalty and revenge; promises made or broken; and the complex effects that time works on such objects, exchanges and promises. Ranging from the twelfth century to the fifteenth, and including close discussions of poetry by Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet and romances in the Auchinleck Manuscript, this book will prompt new ideas and debate amongst students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as anyone curious about the pleasures that romance narratives bring. -- .
This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in romances: through exchanges of objects and people; repeated patterns of love, loyalty and revenge; promises made or broken; and the complex effects that time works on such objects, exchanges and promises. Ranging from the twelfth century to the fifteenth, and including close discussions of poetry by Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet and romances in the Auchinleck Manuscript, this book will prompt new ideas and debate amongst students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as anyone curious about the pleasures that romance narratives bring. -- .
Nicholas Perkins is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford -- .
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 -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 331 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-6716-6 / 1526167166 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-6716-3 / 9781526167163 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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