Middle English Romance as Prototype Genre

Liu, Yin

doi:10.1353/cr.2006.0007

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“…For example Strohm (‘Origin and Meaning’) and Whetter. On the genre of medieval romance, see Strohm (‘Middle English Narrative Genres’), Simpson ( Reform and Cultural Revolution ) 270, and on the difficulties of describing this genre see Liu.…”

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The History of Emotions and Middle English Literature

Downes

McNamara

2016

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Critics have long addressed questions of affect, feeling and emotional expression in Middle English literature, but only in recent years has their interest begun to take theoretical form under the rubric of the ‘history of emotions’. Current critical attitudes to the study of emotions in the past have been shaped substantially by the work of historians, whose focus on emotion in documentary sources has been influenced in turn by research in the fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology, linguistics and, increasingly, the cognitive sciences. How might existing methodologies situating emotions historically drive new approaches in Middle English literary studies? This article contends that existing analyses of Middle English literature relating to affective discourses might fruitfully be brought into conversation with new multidisciplinary forms of research into past emotions. We survey current critical trends in both the history of emotions and in Middle English literature. Case studies of two late Middle English literary texts, the anonymous Sir Orfeo and Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, show how the last fifty years of scholarship has addressed emotions in Middle English literature. We conclude by suggesting future directions that might be taken up by critics of medieval English literary texts and genres to develop further the relationship between literary studies and the history of emotions.

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LybeausDesconus

Weldon

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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Lybeaus Desconus is an anonymous fourteenth‐century Middle English romance about Sir Gawain's illegitimate son, Sir Gyngelayne, also known as Lybeaus Desconus or the Fair Unknown. When Gyngelayne arrives at Arthur's court, he is ignorant of his father, courtly life, and even his name. Because of his “fair looks” King Arthur knights the young man and gives him the name, Lybeaus Desconus. He proves his chivalric stature by means of a series of trial‐adventures and rescues the imprisoned and enchanted Lady of Sinadoun, whom he eventually marries. From the Lady of Sinadoun he discovers his kinship with Sir Gawain, and in some versions he learns his paternity and name from his mother and Sir Gawain. Several fifteenth‐century references to the narrative attest to the popularity of Lybeaus Desconus , and the character Lybeaus/Gyngelayne appears as a minor character in several medieval works.

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Crusades Romance

Calkin

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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Middle English Romance as Prototype Genre

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The History of Emotions and Middle English Literature

The History of Emotions and Middle English Literature

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