The English romance in time :: transforming motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the death of Shakespeare /
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Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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505 | 0 | |a Introduction: 'Enter, pursued with a bear'; 1. Quest and Pilgrimage: 'The adventure that God shall send me'; 2. Providence and the Sea: 'No tackle, sail nor mast'; 3. Magic that Doesn't Work; 4. Fairy Monarch, Fairy Mistresses: 'I am of ane other countree'; 5. Desirable Desire: 'I am wholly given unto thee'; 6. Women on Trial; 7. Restoring the Rightful Heir: 'If that which was lost be not found'; 8. Unhappy Endings: 'The most accursed, unhappy, and evil fortuned'; Appendix; Bibliography | |
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contents | Introduction: 'Enter, pursued with a bear'; 1. Quest and Pilgrimage: 'The adventure that God shall send me'; 2. Providence and the Sea: 'No tackle, sail nor mast'; 3. Magic that Doesn't Work; 4. Fairy Monarch, Fairy Mistresses: 'I am of ane other countree'; 5. Desirable Desire: 'I am wholly given unto thee'; 6. Women on Trial; 7. Restoring the Rightful Heir: 'If that which was lost be not found'; 8. Unhappy Endings: 'The most accursed, unhappy, and evil fortuned'; Appendix; Bibliography |
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spelling | Cooper, Helen, 1947- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJw94cVb6HQfdwkjKgDH4q http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97081135 The English romance in time : transforming motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the death of Shakespeare / Helen Cooper. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. 1 online resource (1 volume) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. Annotation The English Romance in Timeis a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century down to the early seventeenth. This is a continuous story, since the same romances that constituted the largest and most sophisticated body of secular fiction in the Middle Ages went on to enjoy a new and vibrant popularity at all social levels in black-letter prints as the pulp fiction of the Tudor age. This embedded culture was reworked for political and Reformation propaganda and for the 'writing of England', as well as providing a generous reservoir of good stories and dramatic plots. The different ways in which the same texts were read over several centuries, or the same motifs shifted meaning as understanding and usage altered, provide a revealing and sensitive measure of historical and cultural change. The book accordingly looks at those processes of change as well as at how the motifs themselves work, to offer a historical semantics of the language of romance conventions. It also looks at how politics and romance intersect - the point where romance comes true.<br /><br />The historicizing of the study of literature is belatedly leading to a wider recognition that the early modern world is built on medieval foundations. This book explores both the foundations and the building. Similarly, generic theory, which previously tended to operate on transhistorical assumptions, is now acknowledging that genre interacts crucially with cultural context - with changing audiences and ideologies and means of dissemination. The generation into which Spenser and Shakespeare were born was the last to be brought up on a wide range of medieval romances in their original forms, and they could therefore exploit their generic codings in new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences. Romance may since then have lost much of its cultural centrality, but the universal appeal of these same stories has continued to fuel later works from Bunyan'sPilgrim's Progressto C.S. Lewis and Tolkien. Introduction: 'Enter, pursued with a bear'; 1. Quest and Pilgrimage: 'The adventure that God shall send me'; 2. Providence and the Sea: 'No tackle, sail nor mast'; 3. Magic that Doesn't Work; 4. Fairy Monarch, Fairy Mistresses: 'I am of ane other countree'; 5. Desirable Desire: 'I am wholly given unto thee'; 6. Women on Trial; 7. Restoring the Rightful Heir: 'If that which was lost be not found'; 8. Unhappy Endings: 'The most accursed, unhappy, and evil fortuned'; Appendix; Bibliography Romances, English History and criticism. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Roman courtois anglais Histoire et critique. Littérature anglaise 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) Histoire et critique. POETRY English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Literature. eflch English literature Early modern fast English literature Middle English fast Romances, English fast 1100-1700 fast Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast has work: The English romance in time (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFtbMX3QJ8WBdQK6rQjhRC https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Cooper, Helen, 1947- English romance in time. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780199532582 0199532583 (OCoLC)176819712 |
spellingShingle | Cooper, Helen, 1947- The English romance in time : transforming motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the death of Shakespeare / Introduction: 'Enter, pursued with a bear'; 1. Quest and Pilgrimage: 'The adventure that God shall send me'; 2. Providence and the Sea: 'No tackle, sail nor mast'; 3. Magic that Doesn't Work; 4. Fairy Monarch, Fairy Mistresses: 'I am of ane other countree'; 5. Desirable Desire: 'I am wholly given unto thee'; 6. Women on Trial; 7. Restoring the Rightful Heir: 'If that which was lost be not found'; 8. Unhappy Endings: 'The most accursed, unhappy, and evil fortuned'; Appendix; Bibliography Romances, English History and criticism. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Roman courtois anglais Histoire et critique. Littérature anglaise 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) Histoire et critique. POETRY English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Literature. eflch English literature Early modern fast English literature Middle English fast Romances, English fast |
title | The English romance in time : transforming motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the death of Shakespeare / |
title_auth | The English romance in time : transforming motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the death of Shakespeare / |
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title_full | The English romance in time : transforming motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the death of Shakespeare / Helen Cooper. |
title_fullStr | The English romance in time : transforming motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the death of Shakespeare / Helen Cooper. |
title_full_unstemmed | The English romance in time : transforming motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the death of Shakespeare / Helen Cooper. |
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title_sort | english romance in time transforming motifs from geoffrey of monmouth to the death of shakespeare |
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topic | Romances, English History and criticism. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Roman courtois anglais Histoire et critique. Littérature anglaise 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) Histoire et critique. POETRY English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Literature. eflch English literature Early modern fast English literature Middle English fast Romances, English fast |
topic_facet | Romances, English History and criticism. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Roman courtois anglais Histoire et critique. Littérature anglaise 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) Histoire et critique. POETRY English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. English literature Early modern English literature Middle English Romances, English Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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