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Description: Further DetailsTitle: Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English RomancesCondition: NewDescription: This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical matrix of similar themes and characters. As single narratives, they are thought of as random collections of events loosely structured in chronological succession. Susan Wittig, however, offers evidence that the romances are carefully ordered (although not always consciously so) according to a series of formulaic patterns and that their structures serve as vehicles for certain essential cultural patterns and are important to the preservation of some community-held beliefs. The analysis begins on a stylistic level, and the same theoretical principles applied to the linguistic formulas of the poems also serve as a model for the study of narrative structures. The author finds that there are laws that govern the creation, selection, and arrangement of narrative materials in the romance genre and that act to restrict innovation and control the narrative form. The reasons for this strict control are to be found in the functional relationship of the genre to the culture that produced it. The deep structure of the romance is viewed as a problem-solving pattern that enables the community to mediate important contradictions within its social, economic, and mythic structures. Wittig speculates that these contradictions may lie in the social structures of kinship and marriage and that they have been restructured in the narratives in a “practical” myth: the concept of power gained through the marriage alliance, and the reconciliation of the contradictory notions of marriage for power’s sake and marriage for love’s sake. This advanced, thorough, and completely original study will be valuable to medieval specialists, classicists, linguists, folklorists, and Biblical scholars working in oral-formulaic narrative structure. Author: Susan WittigCountry/Region of Manufacture: USEAN: 9780292766532Format: PaperbackGenre: Literary CriticismISBN: 9780292766532ISBN-10: 029276653XItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 454gLanguage: EnglishPublisher: University of Texas PressRelease Date: 11/01/1977Topic: HistoryRelease Year: 1977 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

EAN: 9780292766532

Genre: Literary Criticism

ISBN: 9780292766532

ISBN-10: 029276653X

Release Date: 11/01/1977

Release Year: 1977

Title: Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances

Topic: History

Number of Pages: 232 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Publication Year: 1977

Subject: Medieval, Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Item Height: 0.7 in

Item Weight: 16 Oz

Type: Textbook

Author: Susan Wittig

Item Length: 8.9 in

Subject Area: Literary Criticism

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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