The Forest of Medieval Romance: Avernus, Broceliande, ArdenBoydell & Brewer Ltd, 1993 - 235 trang Corinne J. Saunders's exploration of the topos of the forest, a familiar and ubiquitous motif in the literature of the middle ages, is a broad study embracing a range of medieval and Elizabethan exts from the twelft to the sixteenth centuries: the roman d'antiquite, Breton lay and courtly romance, the hagiographical tradition of the Vita Merlini and the Queste del Saint Graal, Spenser and Shakespeare. Saunders identifies the forest as a primary romance landscape, as a place of adventure, love, and spiritual vision... offers a pleasurable overview of the narrative function of the forest as a literary landscape. Based on a close comparative and theoretically non-partisan] reading of a broad range of literary texts drawn from the Europeqan canon, Saunders's study explores the continuity and transformation of an important motif in the corpus of medieval literature. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEWDr CORINNE SAUNDERSteaches in the Department of English at the University of Durham. BLURBEXTRACTED FROM TLS REVIEW] ...An immense tract, not only of medieval literature but of human experience is] engagingly introduced and presented here...Corinne Saunders considers first forests in reality (a reality which keeps breaking through in romance...). She looks also at the classical and biblical models including Virgil, Statius and Nebuchadnezzar...only then does she turn to the non-real and non-Classical, i.e. the medieval and romantic. Here she follows a clear chronological plan from twelfth to fifteenth centuries also covering] the allegorized landscape of Spenser and the lovers' woods of Arden or Athens in Shakespeare. Her text-by-text layout does justice to the variety of possibilities taken up by different authors; the forest as a place where men run mad and turn into animals, a place of voluntary suffering, a focus of significance in the Grail-quests, a lovers' bower; above all and centrally, the place where the knight is tested and defined, even (as with Perceval) created. |
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The Origins of the Romance Forest | 1 |
Classical Antecedents and Romance Retellings | 25 |
The Twelfth Century | 44 |
The Thirteenth Century | 95 |
Merlin and the Grail Quest | 114 |
The Middle English Romances | 132 |
Malorys Morte Darthur | 163 |
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abduction adventure Aeneas Aeneid allegorical appears Arthur's court Arthurian associated Aucassin Balin beasts beautiful Beroul Breton lays Calogrenant castle Celtic Chalcidius Chaucer's Chevrefoil chivalric Chrétien de Troyes classical concept courtly defined delight desert despite destiny Dido echoes emphasis enchantment encounter Eneas episode Erec exile Faerie Queene figure forest avantureuse forest becomes forest landscape function Gawain Grail Quest Green Knight Guigemar hermit hero Heurodis human hunt hyle idyll journey King lady land Launfal line number literary lovers madness Malory Malory's marvellous medieval romance Merlin Middle English Morois Morte motif narrative nature otherworld pattern Perceval Perceval's plays poem potential prose Lancelot prose Tristan realistic reality recalls role Roman de Thèbes romance form scene setting silva Sir Orfeo society Spenser spiritual subsequent references suggests supernatural symbolic tale texts themes tradition transformation tree Tristan and Iseult Tristram vision White Stag wild wilderness woods Yseut Yvain þat