Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest
Title Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest PDF eBook
Author Sylvia Huot
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 244
Release 2007
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1843841045

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This vast romance chronicles an imaginary era of pre-Arthurian British history when Britain was ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander the Great. Its story of cultural rise, decline, and regeneration offers an exploration of medieval ideas about ethnic and cultural conflict and fusion, identity and hybridity.

Perceforest

Perceforest
Title Perceforest PDF eBook
Author
Publisher DS Brewer
Pages 824
Release 2011
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1843842629

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A highly readable version of this remarkable and largely unexplored work. Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances. Justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs", it is the subject ofrapidly increasing attention and research. The author of Perceforest draws on Alexander romances, Roman histories and medieval travel writing (not to mention oral tradition, as he gives, for example, the distinctly racy first written version of the Sleeping Beauty story), to create a remarkable prehistory of King Arthur's Britain. It begins with the arrival in Britain of Alexander the Great. His follower Perceforest, the first of Arthur's Greek ancestors, is made king of the island and finds it infested by the "evil clan" of Darnant the Enchanter. Magic plays a dominant part in the adventures which follow, as Perceforest ousts Darnant's clan despite their supernaturalpowers. He founds the knightly order of the "Franc Palais", an ideal of chivalric civilisation prefiguring the Round Table of Arthur and indeed that of Edward III. But that civilisation is, the author shows, all too fragile. The vast imaginative scope of Perceforest is matched by its variety of tone, ranging from tales of love and enchantment to bawdy comedy, from glamorous tournaments to unvarnished descriptions of the havoc wrought by war.And the author's surprising view of pagan gods and the coming of Christianity is as fascinating as the prominence he gives to women and his understanding of how the world of chivalry should work. Because of its enormous length - it runs to over a million words - Nigel Bryant has provided a version which gives a complete account of every episode, linking extensive passages of translation, to make a manageable and highly readable version (including the previously unpublished Books Five and Six), of this remarkable and largely unexplored work. Nigel Bryant has worked as a producer for BBC Radio 3 and as head of drama at Marlborough College. This is his fourth majortranslation of medieval Arthurian romance.

The Novel: An Alternative History

The Novel: An Alternative History
Title The Novel: An Alternative History PDF eBook
Author Steven Moore
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 705
Release 2013-09-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1441133364

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Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.

Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale arthurienne

Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale arthurienne
Title Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale arthurienne PDF eBook
Author International Arthurian Society
Publisher
Pages 572
Release 2008
Genre Arthurian romances
ISBN

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Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France

Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France
Title Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France PDF eBook
Author Rebecca Dixon
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Pages 268
Release 2008
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1843841770

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The role of poetry in the transmission and shaping of knowledge in late medieval France.

Fixers

Fixers
Title Fixers PDF eBook
Author Zrinka Stahuljak
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 358
Release 2024-02-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0226830403

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"In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak issues a challenge to scholars working in medieval studies to account for the history of translation, and to experts in translation studies to read the work of medievalists. Focusing on the term "fixer," she unpacks modern uses of the words "interpreter" and "translator" and restores them to their premodern origins: as an active agent who performed a wide range of tasks, as insider informant, local guide, broker of knowledge, and transmitter of art. For Stahuljak, the fixer was a multifunctional intermediary, not a mere translator or interpreter (in the restricted modern sense), but an enabler, facilitator, and mediator, the engine driving the exchange of multiple linguistic, social, cultural, and topographic forms of knowledge. She proposes a paradigmatic shift for both medieval literary history and for the history of translation to confront and interrogate each other in their core disciplinary practices, which promote national, political, and colonial agendas masked as neutrality. Surveying a variety of texts from 1250 to 1500, including crusade treatises and travel writings, accounts of pilgrims and spies, chronicles and romances in both prose and verse, and traversing an impressive range of languages, including Latin, Middle French, German, Italian, and Spanish, Stahuljak asks both medievalists and translation studies scholars to reconsider their assumptions and methods as a way to reconstruct a premodern, precolonial, inclusive world literature"--

Romance on the Early Modern Stage

Romance on the Early Modern Stage
Title Romance on the Early Modern Stage PDF eBook
Author Cyrus Mulready
Publisher Springer
Pages 210
Release 2013-08-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137322713

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What is dramatic romance? Scholars have long turned to Shakespeare's biography to answer this question, marking his 'late plays' as the beginning and end of the dramatic romance. This book identifies an earlier history for this genre, revealing how stage romances imaginatively expanded audience interest in England's emerging global economy.