N. Cartlidge, (éd.), Boundaries in Medieval Romance

Boundaries in Medieval Romance, Rochester, NY, Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, coll. "Studies in Medieval Romance ", 2008, 208p.

Sous la direction de Neil Cartlidge.

Hardback, Isbn (ean13): 978-1-84384-155-5

Recension de cet ouvrage par Carolyne Larrington (St John's College, Oxford) dans The Medieval Review: TMR 2008.10.07 

Présentation de l'éditeur:

Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibilities implicit in boundaries - not only the geographical, political and cultural frontiers that medieval romances imagine and imply, but also more metaphorical demarcations. It is these boundaries, as they appear in insular romances circulating in English and French, which the essays in this volume address. They include the boundary between reality and fictionality; boundaries between different literary traditions, modes and cultures; and boundaries between different kinds of experience or perception, especially the `altered states' associated with sickness, magic, the supernatural, or the divine.

Contributeurs: HELEN COOPER, ROSALIND FIELD, MARIANNE AILES, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, ELIZABETH BERLINGS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, ARLYN DIAMOND, ROBERT ROUSE, LAURA ASHE, JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, CORINNE SAUNDERS

Sommaire:

Introduction
1 When Romance Comes True
Helen Cooper

2 The Curious History of the Matter of England
Rosalind Field

3 How English are the English Charlemagne Romances?
Phillipa Hardman and Marianne Ailes

4 The Sege of Melayne; or, How the French Screwed Up and 'Oure Brettons Rescued Them
Elizabeth Berlings

5 Romance Society and its Discontents: Romance Motifs and Romance Consequences in The Song of Dermot and the Normans in Ireland
Simon Meecham-Jones

6 England, Ireland and Iberia in Olyuer of Castylle: The View from Burgundy
Elizabeth Williams

7 The Alliterative Siege of Jerusalem: The Poetics of Destruction
Arlyn Diamond

8 The Peace of the Roads: Authority and auctoritas in Medieval Romance
Robert Rouse

9 The Hero and his Realm in Medieval English Romance
Laura Ashe

10 The Courteous Warrior: Epic, Romance and Comedy in Boeve de Haumtone
Judith Weiss

11 Rewriting Divine Favour
Ivana Djordjevic

12 Bodily Narratives: Illness, Medicine and Healing in Middle English Romance
Corinne Saunder