Reading Robin Hood - Content, Form and Reception in the Outlaw Myth

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Knight is a Research Professor in English Literature at the University of Melbourne, Australia Klappentext Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice. Zusammenfassung Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw! who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: drawing an academic bow1 Interfacing oralcy and literacy: the case of Robin Hood2 Rabbie Hood: the development of the English outlaw myth in Scotland3 Robin Fitz Warren: the formation of the gest of Robin Hood4 Robin Hood for a penny: reconsidering the outlaw Broadside Ballads5 Romantic Robin Hood6 A novel Robin Hood: nineteenth-century outlaw fiction7 The making and re-making of Maid Marian8 Rhizomatic Robin HoodIndex

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Knight
• Assisted by: Anke Bernau (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2015
• EAN: 9780719095269
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9526-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature; Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval