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Pulp fictions of medieval England : essays in popular romance /

Although Middle English popular romance is an audacious and compendious testimony to the English Middle Ages, it remains under-read and under-studied. This study presents popular romance as worthy of critical attention and also crucial to understanding the complex world of medieval England.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McDonald, Nicola
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Middle English
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the US by Palgrave, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Incorporation in the Siege of Melayne / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
  • The twin demons of aristocratic society in Sir Gowther / Alcuin Blamires
  • A, A and B: coding same-sex union in Amis and Amiloun / Sheila Delany
  • Sir Degrevant: what lovers want / Arlyn Diamond
  • Putting the pulp into fiction: the lump-child and its parents in The King of Tars / Jane Gilbert
  • Eating people and the alimentary logic of Richard Coeur de Lion / Nicola McDonald
  • The Siege of Jerusalem and recuperative readings / Elisa Narin Van Court
  • Story line and story shape in Sir Percyvell of Gales and Chrétien de Troyes's Conte du Graal / Ad Putter
  • Temporary virginity and the everyday body: Le Bone Florence of Rome and bourgeois self-making / Felicity Riddy
  • Romancing the East: Greeks and Saracens in Guy of Warwick / Rebecca Wilcox.