The Exploitations of Medieval Romance Hardback
Edited by Laura Ashe, Ivana (Customer) Djordjevic, Judith Weiss
Part of the Studies in Medieval Romance series
Hardback
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Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance. As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues.
But the romance in turn exploitedavailable figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect.
The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:202 pages
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:18/02/2010
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- ISBN:9781843842125
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:202 pages
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:18/02/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781843842125
