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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... literature . Still , some Old English works need attention , if only to illustrate how much the arrival of the newly polarised connectivity and , therefore , multilinguality of the post - Conquest centuries had affected maritime topoi ...
... Literature ( Oxford , 2004 ) Carlson , Patricia Ann , Literature and the Lore of the Sea ( Amsterdam , 1986 ) Carney , J. , review of C. Selmer , ed . Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis , Medium Aevum 32 ( 1963 ) , 37-44 Carolus - Barré ...
... Literature ( Berkeley and Los Angeles , 1986 ) Cross , T. P. , Motif - Index in Early Irish Literature ( Bloomington , IN , 1952 ) Cunliffe , Barry , Facing the Ocean : The Atlantic and Its Peoples , 8000 BC - AD 1500 ( Oxford , 2001 ) ...
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Traditions | 25 |
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean | 48 |
Almost Beyond the World | 72 |
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