| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"A survey of an investigation into the important question of whether or not medieval narrative was designed for performance"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Oral interpretation -- History -- To 1500
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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Literature, Medieval.
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Oral interpretation.
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Aufführung
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Mündliche Literatur
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Epik
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ErzaÌ#x88;hlen.
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AuffuÌ#x88;hrung.
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Erzählen
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MuÌ#x88;ndliche Literatur.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vitz, Evelyn Birge
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Regalado, Nancy Freeman.
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Lawrence, Marilyn.
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| ISBN |
9781846154201 |
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1846154200 |
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