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English Romance in Time : Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""INTRODUCTION: 'ENTER, PURSUED WITH A BEAR'""; ""Replication across cultures: the meme""; ""Recognizing romance""; ""Exploiting the familiar""; ""Romance in England: a summary history""; ""Coda: The rise and fall of the knight""; ""1. QUEST AND PILGRIMAGE: 'THE ADVENTURE THAT GOD SHALL SEND ME'""; ""Society and the solitary knight""; ""Mythic symmetries""; ""Quests without maps""; ""Questing westward""; ""Landscapes of desire and fear""; ""Seeking forgiveness""; ""The penitential quest at the Reformation""; ""The journey of the soul""
- ""2. PROVIDENCE AND THE SEA: 'NO TACKLE, SAIL, NOR MAST'""""Pollution, guilt, and the state""; ""'God is our pilot'""; ""From miracle to magic""; ""3. MAGIC THAT DOESN'T WORK""; ""Non-functioning magic""; ""Non-replicating magic""; ""Magic in the web?""; ""Magic enacted""; ""4. FAIRY MONARCHS, FAIRY MISTRESSES: 'I AM OF ANE OTHER COUNTREE'""; ""'Some uncouth tidings tell you me'""; ""'I love thee well by cause of the trouthe that is in thee'""; ""'We had thought indeed the Lake had been ours'""; ""'An elf-queen shall my lemman be'""; ""5. DESIRABLE DESIRE: 'I AM WHOLLY GIVEN OVER UNTO THEE'""
- ""The politics of women's desire""""Erotic thought: the Middle Ages""; ""Sanctifying sexuality""; ""Erotic thought: Spenser and Sidney""; ""'Quick, and in mine arms'""; ""6. WOMEN ON TRIAL""; ""The calumny romance in Tudor England""; ""'I am falsely and without cause accused'""; ""If women be a good thing, or no""; ""'Do after the good and leave the evil'""; ""The adultery question""; ""Adultery in English romance""; ""7. RESTORING THE RIGHTFUL HEIR: 'IF THAT WHICH IS LOST BE NOT FOUND'""; ""The foundling and the Fair Unknown""; ""The descent of the crown""; ""Romance after Bosworth""
- ""Dangerous virginity""""8. UNHAPPY ENDINGS: 'THE MOST ACCURSED, UNHAPPY, AND EVIL FORTUNED'""; ""Questing towards death""; ""Exposure on the seas""; ""Diabolic magic""; ""Fairies and fates""; ""Desire""; ""Accusation""; ""From family romance to family tragedy""; ""Appendix: Medieval romance in English after 1500""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""