Middle English Marvels : : Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century / / Tara Williams.
This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways.Supernatural marvels represented in vivid visual detail are foundational to the characteristic Middle English genres of romance and...
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Williams, Tara, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Middle English Marvels : Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century / Tara Williams. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021] ©2018 1 online resource (184 p.) : 4 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Why Marvels Matter -- 1 MIRRORING OTHERWORLDS -- 2 REVEALING SPECTACLES -- 3 MOVING MARVELS -- 4 TALKING MAGIC -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways.Supernatural marvels represented in vivid visual detail are foundational to the characteristic Middle English genres of romance and hagiography. In Middle English Marvels, Tara Williams explores the didactic and affective potential of secular representations of magic and shows how fourteenth-century English writers tested the limits of that potential. Drawing on works by Augustine, Gervase of Tilbury, Chaucer, and the anonymous poets of Sir Orfeo and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, among others, Williams examines how such marvels might convey moral messages within and beyond the narrative. She analyzes examples from both highly canonical and more esoteric texts and examines marvels that involve magic and transformation, invoke visual spectacle, and invite moral reflection on how one should relate to others. Within this shared framework, Williams finds distinct concerns-chivalry, identity, agency, and language-that intersect with the marvelous in significant ways.Integrating literary and historical approaches to the study of magic, this volume convincingly shows how certain fourteenth-century texts eschewed the predominant trends and developed a new theory of the marvelous. Williams's engaging, erudite study will be of special interest to scholars of the occult, the medieval and early modern eras, and literature. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) Literature and morals. Magic in literature. Marvelous, The, in literature. Romances, English History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110745221 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271081786?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271081786 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271081786/original |
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