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Performing medieval narrative

Author: Evelyn Birge Vitz; Nancy Freeman Regalado; Marilyn Lawrence
Publisher: Cambridge ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"A survey of an investigation into the important question of whether or not medieval narrative was designed for performance"--Provided by publisher.
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Evelyn Birge Vitz; Nancy Freeman Regalado; Marilyn Lawrence
ISBN: 1843840391 9781843840398
OCLC Number: 56591913
Description: xvi, 261 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: "He was the best teller of tales in the world": performing medieval Welsh narrative / Sioned Davies --
The complaint of the makers: Wynnere and Wastoure and the "misperformance topos" in medieval England / Joyce Coleman --
Dioneo's repertory: performance and writing in Boccaccio's Decameron / John Ahern --
Mise en texte as indicator of oral performance in Old French verse narrative / Keith Busby --
Erotic reading in the Middle Ages: performance and re-performance of romance / Evelyn Birge Vitz --
Oral performance of written narrative in the medieval French romance Ysaÿe le triste / Marilyn Lawrence --
Performing romance: Arthurian interludes in Sarrasin's Le roman du hem (1278) / Nancy Freeman Regalado --
Performing fabliaux / Brian J. Levy --
Preaching, storytelling, and the performance of short pious narratives / Adrian P. Tudor --
Reading, reciting, and performing the Renart / Kenneth Varty --
Turkic bard and medieval entertainer: what a living epic tradition can tell us about oral performance of narrative in the Middle Ages / Karl Reichl --
Beowulf, the Edda, and the performance of medieval epic: notes from the workshop of a reconstructed "singer of tales" / Benjamin Bagby --
The weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell: performance and intertextuality in middle English popular romance / Linda Marie Zaerr --
"Une aventure vous dirai": performing medieval narrative / Anne Azéma.
Responsibility: edited by Evelyn Birge Vitz, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Marilyn Lawrence.

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Will be of interest to historians of performance as well as to literary historians. ARTHURIANABrings together a rich variety of insights regarding the performance of many different types of medieval Read more...

 
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