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The Exploitations of Medieval Romance

By Laura Ashe

The Exploitations of Medieval Romance Contemporary literature

The Exploitations of Medieval Romance

By Laura Ashe

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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 exploited available 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
Product details
Number of Pages:
202
Release Date:
2010-02-18
Publication Date:
2010-02-18
Publisher:
D.S.Brewer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843842122
ISBN13:
9781843842125
Weight:
473 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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