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Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors' swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance, however, is also a genre in which such objects make meaning on numer…
What are the relationships between the books we read and the communities we share? Common Things explores how transatlantic romance revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century influenced--and were influenced by--emerging modern systems of community.Drawing on the work of W…
"To what extent can imaginative events be situated in time and history? From the medieval to the early modern period, this question is intriguingly explored in the expansive literary genre of romance. This collective study, edited by Jon Whitman, is the first systematic investig…
"To what extent can imaginative events be situated in time and history? From the medieval to the early modern period, this question is intriguingly explored in the expansive literary genre of romance. This collective study, edited by Jon Whitman, is the first systematic investig…
Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed." ? FlavorWire "I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they are the gospel; they are the good news of the sustaining power of imagination, tenderness, and outright joy." ?D. …
Breakfasting daily at a Madrid café where she observes fellow patrons, María Dolz offers condolences to a widow whose husband has been shockingly murdered, an act that leads to a new relationship and disturbing insights into the crime.
"Truman Capote called his account of the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family a nonfiction novel. Using information he collected through townspeople and the killers, Capote created a vivid portrait of the criminals and graphically described the crime, the criminals' escape to Mex…
When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian's singular erotic tastes, Ana …
Fairies in medieval romance
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Type: Book
This book offers new approaches for thinking about the narrative possibilities of fairies in medieval romance, from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie to Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur.
Fairies in medieval romance
by Wade, James
fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Type: Book
This text constructs a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.
