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Telling the Story in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz
K A Duys
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Hardback. New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life. Editor(s): Postlewate, Laurie; Duys, Kathryn A.; Emery, Elizabeth. Series: Gallica. Num Pages: 282 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 242 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life. The storyteller stands at the crossroads of orality and performance, surrounded by a circle of rapt listeners. Evelyn Birge Vitz has challenged a generation of scholars to join the circle, listen as they read, and exchange pen forperformance. A tribute to her work, the fifteen essays in this volume attend to the qualities of voice, their registers and dynamics, whether practiced or impromptu, falsified, overlapping, interrupted or whispered. They examinehow the book became a performance venue and reshaped the storyteller's image and authority, and they investigate the mutability of ... Read more
New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life. The storyteller stands at the crossroads of orality and performance, surrounded by a circle of rapt listeners. Evelyn Birge Vitz has challenged a generation of scholars to join the circle, listen as they read, and exchange pen forperformance. A tribute to her work, the fifteen essays in this volume attend to the qualities of voice, their registers and dynamics, whether practiced or impromptu, falsified, overlapping, interrupted or whispered. They examinehow the book became a performance venue and reshaped the storyteller's image and authority, and they investigate the mutability of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843843917
SKU
V9781843843917
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Ref
99-50
About K A Duys
ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. MAUREEN BOULTON Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Notre Dame.
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