The gift of narrative in medieval England
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Product Details
Author:
Nicholas Perkins
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
288
Publisher:
Manchester University Press (January 17, 2023)
Language:
English
Audience:
College/higher education
ISBN-13:
9781526167163
ISBN-10:
1526167166
Dimensions:
5.43" x 8.5" x 0.6"
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Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$36.95
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Pub Discount:
65
Series:
Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Case Pack:
20
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$28.45
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
A
Weight:
11.68oz
Imprint:
Manchester University Press
Overview
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.
