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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"medieval narrative"”.
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Interpolated lyric in medieval narrative poetry
… research concerns the use of song within narrative works in the Middle Ages. I have concentrated first on the substantial tradition in Old French of incorporating songs in this manner; and second, on the importance of this tradition to Chaucer, a poet who includes songs in nearly all his …
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She is Right to Behave Thus: Implications of Illicit Rendezvous in Medieval Narrative
… the reality is that the historical and literary medieval world is much more complicated. When discussing the issues of sexuality, women, and sexual normativity, these assumptions hinder our ability to accurately analyze the content and reception of medieval literature. This project addresses this …
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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.
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The meaning of structure in chaucerian narrative
… this dissertation investigates the models of narrative brought forth to explain the alterity of medieval narrative and then advances its own. The characteristic in particular which has made medieval narrative seem alien to the modern reader is its strange plotting— the logic of its action or …
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Dispersed Selves, Excessive Flesh: Embodied Identity Flows In Three Middle English Narratives
… in three late fourteenth-century Middle English narratives that operate within and across the generic boundary of romance: The King of Tars, The Siege of Jerusalem, and The Knight's Tale. These narratives take an interest in the construction of individual identities - chivalric, racial, …
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Supernatural Visitation in Medieval Literature
Supernatural Visitation, broadly defined as the narratively bounded appearance of an otherworldly personage (or Visitant) to a human recipient (or Visited), represents a highly widespread and cross-generic literary motif throughout the Late Middle Ages. Although previous studies have considered the …
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Representations of Prussian life and history in the Preussische Chronik of Simon Grunau
… and inventions he included as part of his narrative. However, medieval approaches to truth and narrative histories diverge from modern definitions and thus it is a mistake to analyse Grunau’s chronicle solely from the premise of identifying veracity as we might understand it. It is …
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Marian Devotion Through Music, Lyric, and Miracle Narrative in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
… thesis shows not just that music, lyric, and narrative converge in the cantigas de miragro (miracle songs), but that it is specifically the form that allows the melody of the refrain to connect the moral of the song, expressed lyrically during the refrain, to the miracle narrative presented in …