The English Romance in Time
Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare
(Sprache: Englisch)
The great story motifs of romance - quests and magic, rudderless boats and passionate heroines, missing heirs and fairy mistresses - were transmitted directly through from the Middle Ages to the age of print in an abundance of editions, to form a corpus of...
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The great story motifs of romance - quests and magic, rudderless boats and passionate heroines, missing heirs and fairy mistresses - were transmitted directly through from the Middle Ages to the age of print in an abundance of editions, to form a corpus of secular literature that was universally known in the sixteenth century, by the educated and the illiterate alike. Spenser and Shakespeare assumed a familiarity with them, and so did the various monarchs and rebels
who exploited them for their own purposes. Helen Cooper sets out to recover that lost cultural literacy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
who exploited them for their own purposes. Helen Cooper sets out to recover that lost cultural literacy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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This book is 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 Ageswent 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.
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
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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's Pilgrim's Progress to C.S. Lewis and Tolkien.
appeal of these same stories has continued to fuel later works from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to C.S. Lewis and Tolkien.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Helen Cooper
- 2004, 560 Seiten, Maße: 22,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199248869
- ISBN-13: 9780199248865
Sprache:
Englisch
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