| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 163 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Texts and contexts
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Texts and contexts (Continuum (Firm))
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Social and cultural context -- Literary context and material culture -- Genre and intertextuality -- Scripting identities : private and public worlds -- Critical contexts -- Afterlives and adaptations. |
| Summary |
Medieval Romance in Context is an introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues and events that impacted on romance writing and its reception such as chivalric ideals, the Black Death, wars and 'Englishness' as well as key literary issues such as medieval manuscript production and its transmission. Close readings of key texts - including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Breton lays and Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale - highlight generic features and issues like family drama, space and time, and nationhood. The final section introduces key critical interpretations from different perspectives including gender and queer theory, and post-colonialism in medieval studies. A chapter on afterlives and adaptations explores reinterpretations of medieval romance and the Arthurian cycles in a range of popular texts and narratives from Doctor Who to Batman. 'Review, Reading and Research' sections give suggestions for further reading, discussion and research. --From publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Romance-language poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
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Romance-language poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Romances, English -- History and criticism.
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Romances, English. |
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1100-1500. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ashton, Gail, 1957- Medieval English romance in context. London : Continuum, ©2010 9781847062499 (OCoLC)520666497 |
| ISBN |
9781441129956 (electronic book) |
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1441129952 (electronic book) |
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9781847062499 |
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1847062490 |
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1847062504 |
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9781847062505 |
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