Medieval Literature: The Basics - The Basics

Informationen zum Autor Angela Jane Weisl is Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Seton Hall University, USA. She is the author of Conquering the Reign of Femeny: Gender and Genre in Chaucer’s Romance (1995), The Persistence of Medievalism: Narrative Adventures in Contemporary Culture (2003), and with Tison Pugh, Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present (2012), as well as many articles on a wide variety of medieval subjects. Anthony Joseph Cunder graduated from Seton Hall University, USA with a Master's in English. He has published work (both fiction and scholarly articles) in a variety of online and print journals in addition to publishing a memoir about growing up and living with type 1 diabetes. Zusammenfassung Medieval Literature is an engaging introduction to ideologies and theories in areas such as religion, politics and culture, as well as those applied to reading and understanding medieval texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Manuscripts, Castles, and Quests: Diving into Medieval Literature 1. How to Wield a Sword in the Middle Ages: Medieval Literature and War 2. Chivalry is not Dead: Medieval Literature and Love 3. Meeting Monsters on the Map: Medieval Literature of Space and Time 4. Touching Heaven: The Literature of Religion 5. The Most Extreme: Iconic Authors of the Middle Ages 6. Game of Texts: The Magic of Medieval Literature Today

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• Authors: Anthony J. Cunder, Anthony Joseph Cunder, WEISL, Angela Jane Weisl, Angela Jane (Seton Hall University Weisl, Weisl Angela Jane
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781138669048
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66904-8
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Basics; Basics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE