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Boundaries in Medieval Romance: 6
Author(s): Neil M R Cartlidge (Editor), Arlyn Diamond (Contributor), Corinne Saunders (Contributor), Elizabeth Berlings (Contributor), Elizabeth Williams (Contributor), Helen Cooper (Contributor), Ivana Djordjevic (Contributor), Judith Weiss (Contributor), Laura Ashe (Contributor), Professor Marianne Ailes (Contributor), Phillipa Hardman (Contributor), Robert Rouse (Contributor), Rosalind Field (Contributor), Simon Meecham-Jones (Contributor)
- Publisher: D.S.Brewer
- Publication Date: 21 Feb. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 184384155X
- ISBN-13: 9781843841555
Book Description
A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance. Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibilities implicit in boundaries – not only the geographical, political and cultural frontiers that medieval romances imagine and imply, but also more metaphorical demarcations. It is these boundaries, as they appear in insular romances circulating in English and French, which the essays in this volume address. They include the boundary between reality and fictionality; boundaries between different literary traditions, modes and cultures; and boundaries between different kinds of experience or perception, especially the “altered states” associated with sickness, magic, the supernatural, or the divine. CONTRIBUTORS: HELEN COOPER, ROSALIND FIELD, MARIANNE AILES, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, ELIZABETH BERLINGS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, ARLYN DIAMOND, ROBERT ROUSE, LAURA ASHE, JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, CORINNE SAUNDERS
