Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England

The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England

Perkins, Nicholas

Paperback

Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 1526167166
ISBN13: 9781526167163
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jan 17 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in romances: through exchanges of objects and people; repeated patterns of love, loyalty and revenge; promises made or broken; and the complex effects that time works on such objects, exchanges and promises. Ranging from the twelfth century to the fifteenth, and including close discussions of poetry by Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet and romances in the Auchinleck Manuscript, this book will prompt new ideas and debate amongst students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as anyone curious about the pleasures that romance narratives bring.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Perkins, Nicholas

View All

Also in

Literary Criticism

View All