| The Exploitations of Medieval Romance Contributor(s): Ashe, Laura (Editor), Djordjevic, Ivana (Editor), Weiss, Judith (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1843842122 ISBN-13: 9781843842125 Publisher: Boydell & Brewer OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Series: Studies in Medieval Romance |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.42" W x 9.24" (0.91 lbs) 202 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploited available figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext.
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