The Challenge of the Medieval Text : Studies in Genre and Interpretation / W. T. H. Jackson; Robert W. Hanning, Joan M. Ferrante.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, W. T. H., author.

Contributor:

Ferrante, Joan M., editor.

Hanning, Robert W., editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1985]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Shares a collection of essays on a variety of genres and national literatures from courtly love, lyric, epic drama, allegory, and romance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Publications

I. The De Amove of Andreas Capellanus and the Practice of Love At Court

II. Faith Unfaithful-The German Reaction to Courtly Love

III. Contrast Imagery in the Poems of Friedrich von Hausen

IV. Persona and Audience in Two Medieval Love-Lyrics

V. The Medieval Pastourelle As a Satirical Genre

VI. The Politics of a Poet: The Archipoeta As Revealed by His Imagery

VII. The Epic Center As Structural Determinant in Medieval Narrative Poetry

VIII. Time and Space in the Ludus de Antichristo

IX. Pyrgopolinices Converted: The Boasting Soldier in Medieval German Literature

X. Allegory and Allegorization

XI. The Nature of Romance

XII. Problems of Communication in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes

XIII. The Arthuricity of Marie de France

XIV. The Progress of Parzival and the Trees of Virtue and Vice

XV. The Literary Views of Gottfried von Strassburg

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89245-4

OCLC:

1100451950