Author: Barbara Fuchs
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 041521260X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
"Often derided as an inferior form of literature, "romance" as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike." "Romance is a clear and wide-ranging introduction for students of literary history, comparative literature and modern literary forms. It is also a convincing case for a literary concept too often set to one side."--BOOK JACKET.
Romance
Author: Barbara Fuchs
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 041521260X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
"Often derided as an inferior form of literature, "romance" as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike." "Romance is a clear and wide-ranging introduction for students of literary history, comparative literature and modern literary forms. It is also a convincing case for a literary concept too often set to one side."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 041521260X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
"Often derided as an inferior form of literature, "romance" as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike." "Romance is a clear and wide-ranging introduction for students of literary history, comparative literature and modern literary forms. It is also a convincing case for a literary concept too often set to one side."--BOOK JACKET.
Epic Romance
Author: Colin Burrow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Epic Romance: Homer to Milton presents a comprehensive view of the epic tradition from Homer, through Virgil, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, and the host of minor writers who helped create the idiom within which these writers worked, to the idiom within which these writers worked, to the indiviudal authors in historical context link to develop a powerful explanation of how and why the epic changed from Homer to Milton. Dr Burrow shows how the romance hero, whose prime motives are love and pity, emerged from a sequence of reinterpretations of Homer which runs from Virgil's Aeneid and its medieval redactions to Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Relating the emergence of the romance hero to the digressive, decentred form of romance, the author explores how later writers sought to control the digressive energies of the romance hero and to create a language and form of heroism more like those of classical epic. This analysis leads to a fresh account of the way in which Renaissance writers responded to, and moved tentatively towards, the writing of the past. Arguing against the view that Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, and Milton were engaged ina battle for mastery over their predecessors, Dr Burrow reveals how they transformed they received intrepreations of past epic in order to draw closer to the narrative forms of their classical forebears.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Epic Romance: Homer to Milton presents a comprehensive view of the epic tradition from Homer, through Virgil, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, and the host of minor writers who helped create the idiom within which these writers worked, to the idiom within which these writers worked, to the indiviudal authors in historical context link to develop a powerful explanation of how and why the epic changed from Homer to Milton. Dr Burrow shows how the romance hero, whose prime motives are love and pity, emerged from a sequence of reinterpretations of Homer which runs from Virgil's Aeneid and its medieval redactions to Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Relating the emergence of the romance hero to the digressive, decentred form of romance, the author explores how later writers sought to control the digressive energies of the romance hero and to create a language and form of heroism more like those of classical epic. This analysis leads to a fresh account of the way in which Renaissance writers responded to, and moved tentatively towards, the writing of the past. Arguing against the view that Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, and Milton were engaged ina battle for mastery over their predecessors, Dr Burrow reveals how they transformed they received intrepreations of past epic in order to draw closer to the narrative forms of their classical forebears.
Epic and Romance
Author: William Paton Ker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Epic and Romance Criticism: English and American epics and metrical romances
Author: Arthur Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Epic and Romance Criticism
Author: Arthur Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature (Classic Reprint)
Author: W. P. KER
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266919407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Excerpt from Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature These essays are intended as a general description of some of the principal forms of narrative literature in the Middle Ages, and as a review Of some of the more interesting works in each period. It is hardly necessary to say that the conclusion is one in which nothing is concluded, and that whole tracts of literature have been barely touched on - the English metrical romances, the Middle High German poems, the ballads, Northern and Southern - which would require to be considered in any systematic treatment of this part of history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266919407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Excerpt from Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature These essays are intended as a general description of some of the principal forms of narrative literature in the Middle Ages, and as a review Of some of the more interesting works in each period. It is hardly necessary to say that the conclusion is one in which nothing is concluded, and that whole tracts of literature have been barely touched on - the English metrical romances, the Middle High German poems, the ballads, Northern and Southern - which would require to be considered in any systematic treatment of this part of history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Epic and Romance Criticism
Author: Arthur Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chansons de geste
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chansons de geste
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Epic and Romance
Author: W. P. Ker
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Epic and Romance is a collection of essays on medieval literature by W. P. Ker. Ker was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist. Excerpt: "It is the nature of epic poetry to be at ease in regard to its subject matter, to be free from the strain and excitement of weaker and more abstract forms of poetry in dealing with heroic subjects. The heroic ideal of epic is not attained by a process of abstraction and separation from the meannesses of familiar things. The magnificence and aristocratic dignity of epic is conformable to the practical and ethical standards of the heroic age; that is to say, it tolerates a number of things that may be found mean and trivial by academicians. Epic poetry is one of the complex and comprehensive kinds of literature, in which most of the other kinds may be included—romance, history, comedy; tragical, comical, historical, pastoral are terms not sufficiently various to denote the variety of the Iliad and the Odyssey."
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Epic and Romance is a collection of essays on medieval literature by W. P. Ker. Ker was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist. Excerpt: "It is the nature of epic poetry to be at ease in regard to its subject matter, to be free from the strain and excitement of weaker and more abstract forms of poetry in dealing with heroic subjects. The heroic ideal of epic is not attained by a process of abstraction and separation from the meannesses of familiar things. The magnificence and aristocratic dignity of epic is conformable to the practical and ethical standards of the heroic age; that is to say, it tolerates a number of things that may be found mean and trivial by academicians. Epic poetry is one of the complex and comprehensive kinds of literature, in which most of the other kinds may be included—romance, history, comedy; tragical, comical, historical, pastoral are terms not sufficiently various to denote the variety of the Iliad and the Odyssey."
Epic and Romance Criticism: English and American epics and metrical romances
Author: Arthur Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Epic and Romance Criticism
Author: Arthur Coleman
Publisher: New York : Watermill Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Watermill Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description