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| Boundaries in Medieval Romance
ISBN: 9781846156137
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;
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
Saunders Corinne :
Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham.Ashe Laura :
LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.Ailes Marianne :
MARIANNE AILES is Professor of French at the University of Bristol.Hardman Phillipa :
PHILLIPA HARDMAN is Reader in Medieval English Literature (retired) at the University of Reading.Rouse Robert :
ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. |
