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Middle English Romances in Translation
Kenneth Eckert
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Paperback. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
The popular romances of medieval England are fantasy stories of love at first sight; brave knights seeking adventure; evil stewards; passionate, lusty women; hand-to-hand combat; angry dragons; and miracles. They are not only fun but indicate a great deal about the ideals and values of the society they were written in. Yet the genre of Middle English romance has only recently begun to attain critical respectability, dismissed as "vayn carpynge" in its own age and generally treated by twentieth-century critics as a junk-food form of medieval literature. Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas has been assumed to be a satire of ... Read more
The popular romances of medieval England are fantasy stories of love at first sight; brave knights seeking adventure; evil stewards; passionate, lusty women; hand-to-hand combat; angry dragons; and miracles. They are not only fun but indicate a great deal about the ideals and values of the society they were written in. Yet the genre of Middle English romance has only recently begun to attain critical respectability, dismissed as "vayn carpynge" in its own age and generally treated by twentieth-century critics as a junk-food form of medieval literature. Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas has been assumed to be a satire of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sidestone Press Netherlands
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Leiden, Netherlands
ISBN
9789088903397
SKU
V9789088903397
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