Violence in medieval courtly literature : a casebook /: a casebook. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Albrecht Classen.
• Other Names: Classen, Albrecht
• Contents: 1. Authority, Violence, and the Sacred at the Medieval Court / Leo D. Lefebure -- 2. Brutality and Violence in Medieval French Romance and Its Consequences / Raymond Cormier -- 3. Turnus in Veldeke's Eneide : The Effects of Violence / William C. McDonald -- 4. Violence and Pain at the Court Comparing Violence in German Heroic and Courtly Epics / Scott E. Pincikowski -- 5. Violence Stylized / Siegfried R. Christoph -- 6. Violence at King Arthur's Court : Wolfram von Eschenbach's Perspectives / Albrecht Classen -- 7. Violence in La Queste del Saint Graal and La Mort le roi Artu (Yale 229) / Nancy Black -- 8. Violence & Communication in Shota Rustaveli's The Lord of the Panther-Skin / Gijsbertus Koolemans Beynen -- 9. Constructive and Destructive Violence in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mľusine / Stacey L. Hahn -- 10. The Violent Poetics of Inversion, or The Inversion of Violent Poetics : Meo dei Tolomei, His Mother, and the Italian Tradition of Comic Poetry / Fabian Alfie -- 11. Violent Magic in Middle English Romance / Corinne Saunders -- 12. Why Is Middle English Romance So Violent? The Literary and Aesthetic Purposes of Violence / Jean E. Jost -- 13. Destruire et disperser : Violence and the Fragmented Body in Christine de Pizan's Prose Letters / Marcella L. Munson -- 14. Mimetic Crisis in the Medieval Mass : A Sequence for the Feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury and its Liturgical Function, c. 1230 / Julia W. Shinnick -- 15. Violence in the Spanish Chivalric Romance / Michael Harney.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 809/.933552; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; Littérature médiévale -- Histoire et critique; Violence dans la littérature; Literature, Medieval; Violence in literature; Letterkunde; Geweld; Höfische Literatur; Gewalt; Littérature médiévale - Histoire et critique; Violence dans la littérature; Gewalt (Motiv); Literatur; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135876340; 1135876347
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.