The Iberian Apollonius of Tyre:

"The tale of King Apollonius of Tyre's adventures is central to the premodern literary imagination. The legend remained current until the 1600s, when it hit the boards as Shakespeare's Pericles. Even though Ben Jonson called the story "mouldy," it is clear that writers and a...

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Weitere Verfasser: Francomano, Emily C. (HerausgeberIn, ÜbersetzerIn), Pascual-Argente, Clara (HerausgeberIn, ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Romance
Spanish
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:Dumbarton Oaks medieval library 84
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Zusammenfassung:"The tale of King Apollonius of Tyre's adventures is central to the premodern literary imagination. The legend remained current until the 1600s, when it hit the boards as Shakespeare's Pericles. Even though Ben Jonson called the story "mouldy," it is clear that writers and audiences were delighted to dust off, retell, and retranslate this glittering fiction of a tempest-tossed prince and the trials of his family. This volume presents new editions and English translations of the two complete, standalone medieval Iberian versions of The Book of Apollonius and the The Life and History of King Apollonius. The Book of Apollonius is very much a full-fledged exemplary romance of antiquity, while the Life and History of King Apollonius is an extended exemplum verging on romance. Consequently, the two Iberian texts are representative of how different artists and translators chose distinctive modes of reworking classical material for new audiences over the centuries. Moreover, they show how the Apollonius legend is present at the creation of two major literary and cultural movements in Iberia: vernacular, clerical poetry in the thirteenth century, and the transformation of medieval literature -produced by vernacular humanism and nascent print culture- in the fifteenth century. Both Iberian reworkings develop the key, interrelated themes which were in large part the narrative ingredients that made the story so popular for so long, namely, incest and the threat of incest, riddling, intellectual heroism, the thematization of written culture, kingship and courtliness, and the vagaries of fortune. Further, both clearly highlight the exemplary nature of the tale: for medieval Iberian audiences Apollonius's story is a mirror of princes, a spiritual guide, and a story about the pilgrimage of human life."
Beschreibung:xxvi, 369 Seiten 21 cm
ISBN:9780674291034

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