Medieval Narrative
An Introduction
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 September 2004
- ISBN 9780199258390
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 216x138x17 mm
- Weight 385 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
An introduction to medieval and modern ideas of narrative and the main types of medieval story-telling, including fable, chronicle, epic, romance, and dream. Medieval Narrative: An Introduction indicates some of the interesting complexities of a literature too often regarded as simple or alien, but which, in mediating between fact and fiction and between tradition and parody, has enough uncertainties to satisfy any post-modernist reader.
MoreLong description:
An introduction to the variety of medieval narrative, intended both for students and more general readers who already know some of the classics of the Middle Ages, such as Beowulf, the Decameron and The Canterbury Tales,, and who wish to venture further. Medieval definitions and theories of narrative are considered in relation to modern narratology and the major medieval types of narrative are discussed. The perspective in this book is mainly English, with Chaucer as a central figure, but it refers to a range of well-known European texts and writers, such as Marie de France, Cretien de Troyes, the Niebelungenlied, the Poem of the Cid, Dante and Boccaccio.
Medieval Narrative: An Introduction is an excellent resource for students or non-specialists who have taken a course on medieval literature (particularly on Chaucer) and would like some guidance for further reading or a better sense of medieval ideas about narrative.
Table of Contents:
The Idea of Medieval Narrative
Narrative
Didactic Narratives
Forms of History
Comic Tales
Fantasy and Dream
Two Versions of Tragedy: Trolius and Criseyde and the Alliterative Morte Arthure
Putting Narratives Together
Postscript
Bibliography
