Neil M.R. Cartlidge 
Boundaries in Medieval Romance [PDF ebook] 

A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance.


Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibilities implicit in boundaries – not only the geographical, political and cultural frontiers that medieval romances imagine and imply, but also more metaphorical demarcations. It is these boundaries, as they appear in insular romances circulating in English and French, which the essays in this volume address. They include the boundary between reality and fictionality; boundaries between different literary traditions, modes and cultures; and boundaries between different kinds of experience or perception, especially the ‚altered states‘ associated with sickness, magic, the supernatural, or the divine.


CONTRIBUTORS: HELEN COOPER, ROSALIND FIELD, MARIANNE AILES, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, ELIZABETH BERLINGS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, ARLYN DIAMOND, ROBERT ROUSE, LAURA ASHE, JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, CORINNE SAUNDERS

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

When Romance Comes True – Helen Cooper

The Curious History of the Matter of England – Rosalind Field

How English are the English Charlemagne Romances? – Phillipa Hardman and Marianne Ailes

The
Sege of Melayne; or, How the French Screwed Up and ‚Oure Brettons Rescued Them – Elizabeth Berlings

Romance Society and its Discontents: Romance Motifs and Romance Consequence s in
The Song of Dermot and the Normans in Ireland – Simon Meecham-Jones

England, Ireland and Iberia in
Olyuer of Castylle: The View from Burgundy – Elizabeth Williams

The Alliterative
Siege of Jerusalem: The Poetics of Destruction – Arlyn Diamond

The Peace of the Roads: Authority and
auctoritas in Medieval Romance – Robert Rouse

The Hero and his Realm in Medieval English Romance – Laura Ashe

The Courteous Warrior: Epic, Romance and Comedy in
Boeve de Haumtone – Judith Weiss

Rewriting Divine Favour – Ivana Djordjevic

Bodily Narratives: Illness, Medicine and Healing in Middle English Romance – Corinne Saunders

Über den Autor

ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.