The gift of narrative in medieval England (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture, 39) - Softcover

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Perkins, Nicholas

9781526167163: The gift of narrative in medieval England (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture, 39)

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ISBN 10: 1526167166 ISBN 13: 9781526167163

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2023

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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.

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Nicholas Perkins is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford

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'Nicholas Perkins’s book is itself a gift, in which the elusive phenomenon of the gifted object has found its ideal, answering intelligence: lucidly scrupulous, attuned as much to the book as gift as to the gift in books and ready to draw as much on anthropology as on the material history of the book. Like all gifts, it’s radiant.'
James Simpson, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Harvard University

‘A wonderful exploration of the ways medieval romances circulate gifts, people, bodies and obligations that are both emotional and social. This incisive study develops the concept and practice of speculative anthropology, balancing theoretical insight with keen textual analysis.’
Stephanie Trigg, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English, University of Melbourne

The gift of narrative in medieval England places medieval narratives in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange. It opens fresh approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages.

The book 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 of time. Ranging from the twelfth-century Romance of Horn to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, it reads these poems alongside debates in anthropology and critical theory, asking such questions as: what role does the circulation of objects play in creating narratives? Do romance protagonists themselves act as gifts? And is storytelling itself a form of gift-giving?

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Verlag: Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN 10: 1526167166
ISBN 13: 9781526167163
Einband: Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten: 284
Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verf�gbar
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