Author: Dennis Howard Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521224586
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 443
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Examination of the role played by irony in one particular medieval genre: the romance. The author discusses the themes to which irony is applied, the types of irony most commonly employed, and the reasons, social and aesthetic, for the prevalence of irony in this genre.
Author: Dennis Howard Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521813999
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Author: Teresa Ann Canganelli
Publisher:
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Category : Irony in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Author: Vladimir R. Rossman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110821117
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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No detailed description available for "Perspectives of Irony on Medieval French Literature".
Author: D. H. Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521794237
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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This book presents linguistic evidence for many aspects of pre-Christian and early medieval European culture.
Author: D. H. Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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D. H. Green shows how German romances found ways to debate and challenge the conventional antifeminism of the medieval period.
Author: Simon Gaunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521058483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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From Petrarch and Dante to Pound and Eliot, the influence of the troubadours on European poetry has been profound. They have rightly stimulated a vast amount of critical writing, but the majority of modern critics see the troubadour tradition as a corpus of earnestly serious and confessional love poetry, with little or no humour. Troubadours and Irony re-examines the work of five early troubadours, namely Marcabru, Bernart Marti, Peire d'Alvernha, Raimbaut d'Aurenga and Giraut de Borneil, to argue that the courtly poetry of southern France in the twelfth century was permeated with irony and that many troubadour songs were playful, laced with humorous sexual innuendo and far from serious; attention is also drawn to the large corpus of texts that are not love poems, but comic or satirical songs.
Author: Nicholas Perkins
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843843900
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves.
Author: Laura Lambdin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313011117
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 447
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Old and Middle English literature can be obscure and challenging. So, too, can the vast body of criticism it has elicited. Yet the masters of medieval literature often drew on similar texts, since imitation was admired. For this reason, recent scholarship has often focused on the importance of genre. The genre in which a work was written can illuminate the author's intentions and the text's meaning. Read in light of a genre's parameters, a given work can be considered in relation to other works within the same category. This reference is a comprehensive overview of Old and Middle English literature. Chapters focus on particular genres, such as Allegorical Verse, Balladry, Beast Fable, Chronicle, Debate Poetry, Epic and Heroic, Lyric, Middle English Parody/Burlesque, Religious and Allegorical Verse, and Romance. Expert contributors define the primary characteristics of each genre and discuss relevant literary works. Chapters provide extensive reviews of scholarship and close with detailed bibliographies. A more thorough bibliography of major scholarly studies closes the book.
Author: Joseph A. Dane
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820338087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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An ambitious theoretical work that ranges from the age of Socrates to the late twentieth century, this book traces the development of the concepts of irony within the history of Western literary criticism. Its purpose is not to promote a universal definition of irony, whether traditional or revisionist, but to examine how such definitions were created in critical history and what their use and invocation imply. Joseph A. Dane argues that the diverse, supposed forms of irony--Socratic, rhetorical, romantic, dramatic, to name a few--are not so much literary elements embedded in texts, awaiting discovery by critics, as they are notions used by critics of different eras and persuasions to manipulate those texts in various, often self-serving ways. The history of irony, Dane suggests, runs parallel to the history of criticism, and the changing definitions of irony reflect the changing ways in which readers and critics have defined their own roles in relation to literature. Probing and provocative, The Critical Mythology of Irony will appeal to a broad spectrum of critics and scholars, particularly those concerned with the historical basis of critical language and its political and educational implications.
