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Genesis Myth In Beowulf And Old English Biblical Poetry

by Joseph St. John

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 Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a secular heroic narrative.The book explores how the Genesis poems resort to the Christian exegetical tradition and draw on secular social norms to deliver their biblically derived and related narratives in a manner relevant to their Christian Anglo-Saxon audiences. In this book it is suggested that these elements work in unison, and that the two Genesis poems function coherently in the context of the Junius 11 manuscript. Moreover, the book explores recourse to Genesis-derived myth in Beowulf, and points to important similarities between this text and the Genesis poems. It is therefore shown that while Beowulf differs from the Genesis poems in several respects, it belongs in a corpus where religious verse enjoys prominence.
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Semiotics Of Multimodality And Signification In The Divine Comedy

by Raffaele De Benedictis

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 Semiotics and multimodality combined together create new forms of signification in the Divine Comedy. It contributes to the advancement of Dante Studies, Literary Criticism, Multimedia/Multiliteracy, philosophy of language, communication, and education.
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Dantologies - Theoretical And Theological Turns In Dante Studies

by William Franke

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 The comparison of current theoretical approaches to Dante, particularly those mobilizing the resources of theology, serves to adumbrate and illustrate, by application to Dante studies as a specific field of scholarship, the authorâ€™s own philosophy of culture and the humanities
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Erotic Medievalisms - Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized People

by Elan Justice Pavlinich

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 Erotic Medievalisms is about the liberatory potential of sexualities, particularly as they relate to medieval histories and modern pleasures. Each of the texts analyzed within subvert norms rooted in medieval cultures or assumptions about the "real" Middle Ages, constructing queer histories that blur the lines between fantasy and authenticity. These medievalisms extend eroticisms and erogenous zones beyond normative limits of pleasure. Moreover, situating these diverse iterations of desire within the medieval past emends narrowly-constructed histories that limit the erotic fantasies and experiences of marginalized people. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Before Emotion: The Language Of Feeling, 400-1800 - The Language Of Feeling, 400-1800

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 Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 advances current interdisciplinary research in the history of emotions through in-depth studies of the European language of emotion from late antiquity to the modern period.
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Language And Community In Early England - Imagining Distance In Medieval Literature

by Emily (John Carroll University, Usa) Butler

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 This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies it as a process of community building that occurred in a multilingual context. Moving from the 8th-13th centuries, to the 16th-century antiquarians who collected medieval manuscripts, it suggests that this period in the history o
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Barbarians In The Sagas Of Icelanders - Homegrown Stereotypes And Foreign Influences

by William H. Norman

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 This book explores the way in the Sagas of Icelanders depict the barbarity of foreign peoples, both abroad and in Iceland, through descriptions of diet, material culture, style of warfare, and character, and compares the portrayal with classical and contemporary European ideas.
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Oral Epic - From Performance To Interpretation

by Karl Reichl

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 This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores its significance for interpretation. The discussion is also relevant for the understanding of medieval and earlier oral-derived epics. The study is based on field-work on the oral traditions of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia and Siberia.
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Polyphony And The Modern

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 Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in oneâ€™s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity.
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Vernacular Verse Histories In Early Medieval England And Francia - The Bard And The Rag-Picker

by Catalin Taranu

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 In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Widsith, and the Waltharius as participating in an alternative mode of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms alongside chronicles, Latinate ecclesiastical histories, and Biblical epics.
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Tracing The Trails In The Medieval World - Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, And Mapping In Medieval Literature

by Albrecht Classen

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 Only a highly comparative study of medieval literature can help us to comprehend how much fundamental ideas and concepts were shared throughout the entire period. The idea of the trail as an epistemological vehicle for the protagonists proves to be critical in reaching a deep understanding of medieval values and ideals.
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Liminality Of Fairies - Readings In Late Medieval English And Scottish Romance

by Piotr Spyra

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 Drawing on anthropology and folklore research as much as on literary criticism, The Liminality of Fairies explains the process by which popular beliefs and folklore gave rise to the fairies of medieval romance, tracing both the direct borrowings and the unique literary transformations that fairies undergo in selected romance works.
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Before Emotion: The Language Of Feeling, 400-1800

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 Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 advances current interdisciplinary research in the history of emotions through in-depth studies of the European language of emotion from late antiquity to the modern period.
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Avid Ears - Medieval Gossips, Sound And The Art Of Listening

by Christine Neufeld

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 Arguing that womenâ€™s "silencing" is in part the result of womenâ€™s voices being treated as the white noise of history, Avid Ears explores the historical representation of female voices as actual acoustic phenomena.
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Zoopedagogies - Creatures As Teachers In Middle English Romance

by Bonnie J. Erwin

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 ZÃ¶opedagogies is the first monograph to explore the pedagogical function of animals in medieval romance, a genre whose surreal elements enable animal characters to behave in ways inspired by, but not limited to their real-world actions.
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From Medievalism To Early-Modernism - Adapting The English Past

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 From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernismâ€"a new term introduced hereâ€"present in contemporary popular culture.
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Forging Boethius In Medieval Intellectual Fantasies

by Brooke Hunter

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 Forging Boethius reconsiders the influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery De disciplina scolarium on medieval understandings of Boethius, using a a variety of different works including texts of translatio studii et imperii, the poetry of Chaucer, and humanist writings.
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Disability And Knighthood In Malory'S Morte Darthur

by Tory Pearman

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 This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Maloryâ€™s Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Maloryâ€™s unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knightâ€™s physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability.
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Beowulf'S Popular Afterlife In Literature, Comic Books, And Film

by Kathleen Forni

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 The most remarkable feature of popular adaptations of the poem is that its monsters, frequently victims of organized militarism, male aggression, or social injustice, are provided with strong motives for their retaliatory brutality.
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Toleration And Tolerance In Medieval European Literature

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 Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented in literary texts of the Middle Ages.
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Storytelling As Plague Prevention In Medieval And Early Modern Italy - The Decameron Tradition

by Martin Marafioti

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 Through close readings of five Italian collections of novellas written over a 500-year period, Martin Marafioti explores the literary tradition of storytelling, and particularly its efficacy as a healing tool following traumatic visitations from the plague. In this study, Giovanni Boccaccio''s Decameron provides the framework for later authors. Although Boccaccio was not the first writer to deal with pestilence or epidemics in a literary work, he was the first to unite the topos of a life-threatening context with a public health disaster like the Black Death, and certainly the first author to propose storytelling as a means of prophylaxis in times of plague. Marafioti goes on to analyze Franco Sacchetti''s Trecento Novelle, Giovanni Sercambi''s Novelliere, Celio Malespini''s Duecento Novelle, and Francesco Argelati''s Decamerone, following in its longue-durée the ups and down, structurally and thematically, of the realistic novella as a genre.
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Language And Community In Early England - Imagining Distance In Medieval Literature

by Emily Butler

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 This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies that development as a process of community building that occurred in a multilingual context. Moving through the eighth century to the thirteenth century, and finally to the sixteenth-century antiquarians who collected medieval manuscripts, it suggests that this important period in the history of English can only be understood if we loosen our insistence on a sharp divide between Old and Middle English and place the textuality of this period in the framework of a multilingual matrix. The book examines a wide range of materials, including the works of Bede, the Alfredian circle, and Wulfstan, as well as the mid-eleventh-century Encomium Emmae Reginae, the Tremulous Hand of Worcester, the Ancrene Wisse, and Matthew Parker’s study of Old English manuscripts. Engaging foundational theories of textual community and intellectual community, this book provides a crucial link with linguistic distance. Perceptions of distance, whether between English and other languages or between different forms of English, are fundamental to the formation of textual community, since the awareness of shared language that can shape or reinforce a sense of communal identity only has meaning by contrast with other languages or varieties. The book argues that the precocious rise of English as a written vernacular has its basis in precisely these communal negotiations of linguistic distance, the effects of which were still playing out in the religious and political upheavals of the sixteenth century. Ultimately, the book argues that the tension of linguistic distance provides the necessary energy for the community-building activities of annotation and glossing, translation, compilation, and other uses of texts and manuscripts. This will be an important volume for literary scholars of the medieval period, and those working on the early modern period, both on literary topics and on historical studies of English nationalism. It will also appeal to those with interests in sociolinguistics, history of the English language, and medieval religious history.
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Signifying Power Of Pearl - Medieval Literary And Cultural Contexts For The Transformation Of Genre

by Jane Beal

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 This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning and in four corresponding genres: literally, an elegy; spiritually, an allegory; morally, a consolation; and anagogically, a revelation. The book addresses cruxes and scholarly debates about the poem’s genre and meaning, including key questions that have been unresolved in Pearl studies for over a century: * What is the nature of the relationship between the Dreamer and the Maiden? * What is the significance of allusions to Ovidian love stories and the use of liturgical time in the poem? * How does avian symbolism, like that of the central symbol of the pearl, develop, transform, and add meaning throughout the dream vision? * What is the nature of God portrayed in the poem, and how does the portrayal of the Maiden’s intimate relationship to God, her spiritual marriage to the Lamb, connect to the poet’s purpose in writing? Noting that the poem is open to many interpretations, Beal also considers folktale genre patterns in Pearl, including those drawn from parable, fable, and fairy-tale. The conclusion considers Pearl in the light of modern psychological theories of grieving and trauma. This book makes a compelling case for re-reading Pearl and recognizing the poem’s signifying power. Given the ongoing possibility of new interpretations, it will appeal to those who specialize in Pearl as well as scholars of Middle English, Medieval Literature, Genre Theory, and Literature and Religion.
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Mary Magdalene In Medieval Culture - Conflicted Roles

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 This innovative and multidisciplinary collection visits representations and interpretations of Mary Magdalene in the medieval and early modern periods, questioning major scholarly assumptions behind the examination of female saints and their depictions in medieval artworks, literature, and music. Mary Magdalene’s many and various characterizations from reformed prostitute to conversion-figure to devotee of Christ to "apostle to the apostles" to spiritual advisor to the Prince of Marseilles to hermit in the desert, to list just a few examples, mean that the many conflicted representations of Mary Magdalene apply to a staggering variety of cultural material, including art, liturgy, music, literature, theology, hagiography, and the historical record. Furthermore, Mary Magdalene has grown into an extremely popular and controversial figure due to recent books and movies concerning her, and due to a groundswell of general speculation concerning her relationship to Jesus: was she his acquaintance, follower, companion, wife, family-member, or lover? This volume employs a broad spectrum of theoretical methodologies in order to present poststructuralist, postcolonial, postmodernist, hagiographic, and feminist readings of the figure of Mary Magdalene, addressing and interrogating her conflicting roles and the precise relationship between her sacred and secular representations.
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