Performing Medieval Narrative (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Vitz, Evelyn Birge; Lawrence, Marilyn; Regalado, Nancy Freeman

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Broad and wide-ranging survey of and investigation into the important question of whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the performance of medieval narrative, using examples from England and the Continent and a variety of genres to examine the crucial question of whether - and how - medieval narratives were indeed intended for performance. Moving beyond the familiar dichotomy between oral and written literature, the various contributions emphasize the range and power of medieval performance traditions, and demonstrate thatknowledge of the modes and means of performance is crucial for appreciating medieval narratives.
The book is divided into four main parts, with each essay engaging with a specific issue or work, relating it to larger questions about performance. It first focuses on representations of the art of medieval performers of narrative. It then examines relationships between narrative performances and the material books that inspired, recorded, or representedthem. The next section studies performance features inscribed in texts and the significance of considering performability. The volume concludes with contributions by present-day professional performers who bring medieval narratives to life for contemporary audiences. Topics covered include orality, performance, storytelling, music, drama, the material book, public reading, and court life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846154201
• Artikelnr.: 63931690

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction [with Nancy Freeman Regalado and Marilyn Lawrence] - Evelyn
Birge Vitz Introduction [with Evelyn Birge Vitz and Marilyn Lawrence] -
Nancy Freeman Regalado Introduction [with Evelyn Birge Vitz and Nancy
Freeman Regalado] - Marilyn Lawrence `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 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 Sequels [with Nancy Freeman Regalado and Marilyn
Lawrence] - Evelyn Birge Vitz Sequels [with Evelyn Birge Vitz and Marilyn
Lawrence] - Nancy Freeman Regalado Sequels [with Evelyn Birge Vitz and
Nancy Freeman Regalado] - Marilyn Lawrence