Telling the Story in the Middle Ages (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz
Redaktion: Kathryn Duys, Kathryn; Postlewate, Laurie; Emery, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.

The storyteller stands at the crossroads of orality and performance, surrounded by a circle of rapt listeners. Evelyn Birge Vitz has challenged a generation of scholars to join the circle, listen as they read, and exchange pen forperformance. A tribute to her work, the fifteen essays in this volume attend to the qualities of voice, their registers and dynamics, whether practiced or impromptu, falsified, overlapping, interrupted or whispered. They examinehow the book became a performance venue and reshaped the storyteller's image and authority, and they investigate the mutability of stories that move from book to book, place to place and among competing cultures to stimulate cultural and political change. They show storytelling as far more than entertainment, but central to law, religious ritual and teaching, as well as the primary mode of delivering news. Themes that crisscross the volume include tensionsamong amateurs and professionals, dominant and minority languages and cultures, women and children's engagement with storytelling, animality, religion, translation, travel, didacticism and entertainment.

Kathryn A. Duys is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois; Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French and Graduate Coordinator at Montclair State University; Laurie Postlewate is Senior Lecturer in French at Barnard College of Columbia University.

Contributors: Elizabeth Archibald, Maureen Boulton, Cristian Bratu, Simonetta Cochis, Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, Kathryn A.Duys, Elizabeth Emery, Marilyn Lawrence, Kathleen Loysen, Laurie Postlewate, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Samuel N. Rosenberg, E. Gordon Whatley, Linda Marie Zaerr.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782044840
• Artikelnr.: 56163660

Autorenporträt

Kathryn A. Duys, Elizabeth Emery, Laurie Postlewate

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 'Of Aunters They Began to Tell': Informal Story in Medieval
England and Modern America - Linda Marie Zaerr The Storyteller's Verbal
Jonglerie in 'Renart jongleur' - Marilyn Lawrence Plusurs en ai oïz conter
: Performance and the Dramatic Poetics of Voice in the Lais of Marie de
France - Simonetta Cochis Who Tells the Stories of Poetry? Villon and his
Readers - Nancy Freeman Regalado The Audience in the Story: Novices Respond
to History in Gautier de Coinci's Chasteé as nonains - Kathryn A. Duys
Effet de parlé and Effet d'écrit: The Authorial Strategies of Medieval
French Historians - Cristian Bratu Or, Entendez!: Jacques Tahureau and the
Staging of the Storytelling Scene - Kathleen A. Loysen Telling the Story of
the Christ Child: Text and Image in Two Fourteenth-Century Manuscripts -
Maureen Boulton Authorizing the Story: Guillaume de Machaut as Doctor of
Love - Joyce Coleman Retelling the Story: Intertextuality, Sacred and
Profane, in the Late Roman Legend of St Eugenia - E. Gordon Whatley
Ruodlieb and Romance in Latin: Audience and Authorship - Elizabeth
Archibald Turner a pru: Conversion and Translation in the Vie de seint
Clement - Laurie Postlewate Stories for the King: Narration and Authority
in the 'Crusade Compilation' of Philippe VI of France (London, British
Library, Royal 19.D.i) - Mark Cruse Le Berceau de la littérature française
: Medieval Literature as Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century France -
Elizabeth Emery Retelling the Old Story - Samuel N. Rosenberg