Medieval stories and storytelling : multimedia and multi-temporal perspectives / edited by S. C. Thomson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thomson, Simon C., editor.

Series:

Medieval narratives in transmission ; v. 2.

Medieval Narratives in Transmission ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling--History--To 1500.

Storytelling.

Storytelling--Social aspects.

Tales, Medieval--History and criticism.

Tales, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

"The shaping and sharing of narrative has always been key to the negotiation and recreation of reality for individuals and cultural groups. Some stories, indeed, seem to possess a life of their own: claiming a peculiar agency and taking on distinct voices which speak across time and space. How, for example, do objects, manuscripts, and other artefacts communicate alternative or complementary narratives that transcend textual and linguistic boundaries? How are stories created, reshaped, and re-experienced, and how do these shifting contexts and media change meaning? This volume of essays explores these questions about meaning and identity in a range of ways. As a collection, it demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary and context-focused enquiry when approaching key issues of activity and identity in the medieval period. Ultimately, the process of making meaning through shaping narrative is shown to be as vital and varied in the medieval world as it is today. With a wide range of different disciplinary approaches from leading scholars in their respective fields, chapters include considerations of art, architecture, metalwork, linguistics, and literature. Alongside examinations of medieval cultural productions are explorations of the representation and adaptation of medieval storytelling in graphic novels, classroom teaching, and computer gaming. This volume thus offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how stories from across the medieval world were shaped, transformed, and transmitted."--Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

Beowulf goes to school : adaptations and transformations for the secondary classroom / Janes Coles, Theo Bryer, and Daniel Ferreira

‘Retelling old stories for new audiences’ : shaping and visualizing Beowulf through Gareth Hinds’ graphic novels [The Collected Beowulf (2003) & Beowulf (2007)] / Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso

Being numerous : communal storytelling in Liðsmannaflokkr / Erin Michelle Goeres

Performance and emotions in four epic works about Roland / Evelyn Birge Vitz

Towards a poetics of storytelling, or, why could early medieval English writers not stop telling the story of Judith? / S. C. Thomson

Mosaics, marbles, and medievalisms : displaying the foundation narrative of the English church in Westminster Cathedral / Meg Boulton

A storied cathedral : space and audacious women in early medieval Durham / Euan McCartney Robson

Dynamic material aspects of writing in Wolfram of Eschenbach’s Titurel / Christoph Witt

Iceland’s Alexander : Gunnarr and pale corn in Njáls Saga / Richard North

Sensing stories : iconography, pattern, and abstraction in metalwork from early medieval England / Melissa Herman

A telling tradition : preliminary comments on the Epic of Manas, 1856–2018 / James Plumtree.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

2-503-59051-9

OCLC:

1250090475