Medieval Insular Romance: Translation and Innovation ISBN-13: 9780859915977

ISBN-13: 9780859915977

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Weiss, Judith

Details: Major themes explored are narratives of the disguised prince, and the reinvention of stories for different tastes and periods.

These studies cover a wide chronological range and familiar and unfamiliar texts and topics. The disguised prince is a theme linking several articles, from early Anglo-Norman romances through later English ones, like King Edward and the Shepherd, to a late 16th-century recasting of the Havelok story as a Tudor celebration of Gloriana. Translation in its widest sense, the way romance can reinvent stories for different tastes and periods, is anotherrunning theme; the opening introductory article considers the topic of translation theoretically, concerned to stimulate further research on how insular romances were transferred between vernaculars and literary systems, while other essays consider Lovelichs Merlin (a poem translating its Arthurian material to the poets contemporary London milieu), Chaucer, and Breton lays in England. Contributors: JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND FIELD, MORGAN DICKSON, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, AMANDA HOPKINS, ARLYN DIAMOND, PAUL PRICE, W.A. DAVENPORT, RACHEL SNELL, ROGER DALRYMPLE, HELEN COOPER. Selected studies, Romance in Medieval England conference.

Release Date: 02-11-2000

Package Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English

Edition: Illustrated

Features:

• Used Book in Good Condition

Number Of Pages: 208