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Medieval Insular Romance: Translation and Innovation
Edited by Judith Weiss
Edited by Jennifer Fellows
Edited by Morgan Dickson


These studies cover a wide chronological range and familiar and unfamiliar texts and topics. The disguised prince is a theme linking several articles, from early Anglo-Norman romances through later English ones, like King Edward and the Shepherd, to a late 16th-century recasting of the Havelok story as a Tudor celebration of Gloriana. 'Translation' in its widest sense, the way romance can reinvent stories for different tastes and periods, is another running theme; the opening introductory article considers the topic of translation theoretically, concerned to stimulate further research on how insular romances were transferred between vernaculars and literary systems, while other essays consider Lovelich's Merlin (a poem translating its Arthurian material to the poet's contemporary London milieu), Chaucer, and Breton lays in England. Contributors: JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND FIELD, MORGAN DICKSON, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, AMANDA HOPKINS, ARLYN DIAMOND, PAUL PRICE, W.A. DAVENPORT, RACHEL SNELL, ROGER DALRYMPLE, HELEN COOPER. Selected studies, 'Romance in Medieval England' conference.

 

DETAILS

3 b/w illustrations
208 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6 cm
13 digit ISBN: 9780859915977
Binding: Hardback
First published: 02/Nov/2000
Last printed: 16/Nov/2000
Price: 95.00 USD / 50.00 GBP
Imprint: D. S. Brewer
Subject: Medieval Literature

BIC class: HRBQ53

STATUS: Print on demand (please allow 3 weeks for delivery)
Details updated on 05/01/2009

Contents
1   Mapping Medieval Translation
Ivana Djordjevic
2   Waldef and the Matter of/with England
Rosalind Field
3   Verbal and Visual Disguise: Society and Identity in Some Twelfth- Century Texts
4   The Breton Lay in Middle English: Genre, Transmission and the Franklin's Tale
Elizabeth Archibald
5   Veiling the Text: The True Role of the Cloth in Emaré
Amanda Hopkins
6   The Erle of Tolous: the price of virtue
Arlyn Diamond
7   Confessions of a Godless Killer: Guy of Warwick and Comprehensive Entertainment
Paul Price
8   Sir Degrevant and Composite Romance
W A Davenport
9   The Undercover King
Rachel Snell
10   'Evele knowen 3e Merlyne, jn certeyn': Henry Lovelich's Merlin
11   The Elizabethan Havelok: William Warner's First of the English
Helen Cooper

Reviews
Demonstrates well the enduring potentiality of romance, by showing how these narratives were rewritten over several centuries, but also how the specific movement of history across their surfaces could create of them very different works. NOTES AND QUERIES A fine volume. The papers are generally of high quality and interest, critically informed but well written and free from jargon. ARTHURIANA



 

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