Narrative subversion in medieval literature
By: E.L. Risden
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780786477784
Subjects: History and criticism; Medieval Literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: "A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling. But the unexpected overturning of narrative progress creates complexity and interest, directing the reader's attention to the most powerful elements of a story. Exile, for example, upsets a protagonist's hopes for a happy earthly life, emphasizing spiritual perception instead. Waking life interrupts dreams"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lost in the Not-so-funhouse: subversive threads in the Medieval narrative labyrinth; title: Narrative subversion and the solutionless problem; title: An aesthetics of subversion in Beowulfian narrative; title: Subverting authority: Dryht, allegory and Old English exile poems; title: Subverting ends: death and the dead; or not; in Vøluspø and some sagas; title: Grail quest romances: subverting a happy ending; title: Plowing, bowing, burning, journeying: penance and subverting penance in Medieval literature; title: Malory's morte: subverting the world's greatest knight; title: Troilus and Cressida and subverting genre; title: Postscript; meta-, para-, neo-, socio-phrase: Gavin Douglas's sub-versive eneados.