The Sea and Medieval English LiteratureD.S. Brewer, 2008 - 205 strán (strany) A fresh and invigorating survey of the sea as it appears in medieval English literature, from romance to chronicle, hagiography to autobiography. As the first cultural history of the sea in medieval English literature, this book traces premodern myths of insularity from their Old English beginnings to Shakespeare's Tempest. Beginning with a discussion of biblical, classical and pre-Conquest treatments of the sea, it investigates how such works as the Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan, the Tristan romances, the chronicles of Matthew Paris, King Horn, Patience, The Book of Margery Kempe and The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye shape insular ideologies of Englishness. Whether it is Britain's privileged place in the geography of salvation or the political fiction of the idyllic island fortress, medieval English writers' myths of the sea betray their anxieties about their own insular identity; their texts call on maritime motifs to define England geographically and culturally against the presence of the sea. New insights from a range of fields, including jurisprudence, theology, the history of cartography and anthropology, are used to provide fresh readings of a wide range of both insular and continental writings. |
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... Fortune ( who is not even mentioned in this passage ) , acts both as a catalyst for Apollonius ' darkest hour and a metaphor for the ruinous course his life seems to have taken . Apollonius ' grief contrasts starkly with the joyful ...
... Fortune is a much bigger phenomenon in this tale than Neptune or the sea ; and whilst Neptune is in agreement with Fortune during the first ship- wreck , he nevertheless appears as a distinct force . It would almost appear as if Neptune ...
... Fortune . Narratively the sea differs from Fortune in its relative predict- ability and its restitutive actions . Remotely psychologised , it even offers Apollonius a metaphorical mirror image of his own life . And while it drives the ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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