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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Medieval Romance"”.
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Naming and Namelessness in English and French Medieval Romance
… and namelessness are among the major themes of romance. Because the genre is notoriously difficult to define, many scholars consider romance as containing a critical number of themes: chivalry, love, questing, the marvellous, the progress of a hero(ine). Name is linked to many of these, and can …
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Courtly constraints: clothing, gifts and honour in Medieval Romance
… is the category of the body, on which Medieval theories of class and virtue were based. Clothing that is frequently used as a constituting symbol of acceptable bodies proves fallible; Enide and Griselda take up royal robes and positions unsuited to their humble origins, and Gawain …
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"Ne canstu me noght knowe?": Disguise, Exile and Medieval Romance
I believe that disguise reveals that medieval identities were fluid and unfixed, but also subject to patriarchal and authoritarian attempts to stabilize them. In these romance traditions, disguise exposes at once the fluidity of identity and the anxiety surrounding this fluidity. I argue that Le …
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Women at War in Early Medieval Poetry and Late Medieval Romance
In early Medieval English poetry and late Medieval romance, there are multiple roles violent women perform. They can be protagonist, antagonist, and supporting character. They prove to be active characters with strength, skill, intelligence, and power. In early Medieval English poetry, Grendel's …
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The cycle and the spiral: rhetorical strategies in Malory's "Morte Darthur"
… and spiral structures which are typical of medieval romance inform Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur. Despite the fact that his prose narrative includes native elements of realism and directness, Malory utilizes the cycle and the spiral as methods of arrangement. These patterns reflect a …
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Toward an understanding of medieval bookmaking: the case for Guy of Warwick
… bias forced on a popular and influential medieval romance, the Auchinleck Guy of Warwick, by its EETS editor Julius Zupitza misrepresents the romance's manuscript presentation and has therefore prejudiced scholarship on fourteenth-century bookmaking. When Zupitza edited the Auchinleck …
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Proving Genre: Robin Hood in the Literary History of Medieval English Romance through 1600
… it to the contemporary literary history of medieval English romance.The introduction and second chapter establish that Robin Hood and romance have generally been considered distinct traditions, albeit sharing certain isolated features, since at least the late-nineteenth century. A model is …
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Gendered magic and Arthurian sovereignty
… is one of the most popular traditions of the medieval period, the legends of King Arthur are particularly suited to a study of the role of the supernatural in the establishment and maintenance of sovereignty in medieval romance. My dissertation, “Gendered Magic and Arthurian Sovereignty,” …
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An edition and study of "Nikulás saga leikara"
… upon Valdimar's death. Nsl. is an Icelandic romance which survives in sixty manuscripts dating from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Despite the saga's popularity in Iceland, Nsl. has received little attention from saga scholars. Nsl. is clearly a fictional saga, and neither …
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The Lodger
… by supernatural themes, elements of medieval romance, and most importantly, by a pervading atmosphere of “pleasing terror”—a hallmark of the genre first explored by the siblings John and Anna Laeticia Aikin in their essay “The Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror,” published in …
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The common reader and the modernist Bildungsroman : Virginia Woolf's The Waves
… who I argue is characterised as a hero in the medieval romance tradition to expose the romantic and heroic fictional narratives that provided the framework for ideas of empire and imperialism, then at the core of nationhood and national identity in England. Conversely I argue that the character …
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Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
… dissertation expands upon the vibrant field of medieval queer studies by considering literary instances of medieval sexual power play via theory on contemporary BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism). It begins with a chapter outlining the history and …
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Spenser's Twin Pillars of the Kingdom: Arthur, Elizabeth, and the Medieval Tradition of Translatio Studii et Imperii
… the governing metaphor and principal method of medieval authors to explain changes in political power and romanticize the past. In this project, I examine medieval and early-modern conceptions of political power in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and the medieval Arthuriana. Ultimately, I …
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The serpent woman as a grotesque in French, English, and German medieval narrative
The student, Carola Dwyer, accepted the attached license on 2015-12-03 at 02:53.