Medievalists.net » Sir Orfeo http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Towards A Poetics of Marvellous Spaces in Old and Middle English Narrative http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/01/towards-a-poetics-of-marvellous-spaces-in-old-and-middle-english-narrative/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/01/towards-a-poetics-of-marvellous-spaces-in-old-and-middle-english-narrative/#comments Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:32:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46239 I argue that the heart of this poetics of marvellous spaces is displacement. Their wonder and dread comes from boundaries that these places blur and cross, from the resistance of these places to being known or mapped, and from the deliberate distancing between these places and the home of their texts.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/01/towards-a-poetics-of-marvellous-spaces-in-old-and-middle-english-narrative/feed/ 0 An Ecoritical Approach to Chaucer. Representations of the Natural World in the English Literature of the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/15/an-ecoritical-approach-to-chaucer-representations-of-the-natural-world-in-the-english-literature-of-the-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/15/an-ecoritical-approach-to-chaucer-representations-of-the-natural-world-in-the-english-literature-of-the-middle-ages/#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:56:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38030 The choice to write and present a study of nature in medieval English literature from an ecological perspective has been originated by a personal interest in the urgency of the deep environmental crisis we are faced with and by the drive to expand the eco- oriented study of representations of nature in literature to chronological and spatial areas well beyond those originally typical of ecological criticism.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/15/an-ecoritical-approach-to-chaucer-representations-of-the-natural-world-in-the-english-literature-of-the-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Creativity, the trickster, and the cunning harper king: A study of the minstrel disguise entrance trick in “King Horn” and “Sir Orfeo” http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/creativity-the-trickster-and-the-cunning-harper-king-a-study-of-the-minstrel-disguise-entrance-trick-in-king-horn-and-sir-orfeo/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/creativity-the-trickster-and-the-cunning-harper-king-a-study-of-the-minstrel-disguise-entrance-trick-in-king-horn-and-sir-orfeo/#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:37:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32869 What does a hero do when he finds himself in an impossible situation where customary tactics are useless; magic is not in the cards, and divine intervention unlikely? He could give up. Or he could use cunning. In both King Horn and Sir Orfeo, the hero wiggles out of just such a squeeze by using a minstrel disguise entrance trick—a sort of musical Trojan horse for which the enemy's closely guarded gates swing open in welcome.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/creativity-the-trickster-and-the-cunning-harper-king-a-study-of-the-minstrel-disguise-entrance-trick-in-king-horn-and-sir-orfeo/feed/ 0 A King, A Ghost, Two Wives, and the Triumph of Love: Romance, Confession and Penance in Sir Orfeo and The Gast of Gy http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/23/a-king-a-ghost-two-wives-and-the-triumph-of-love-romance-confession-and-penance-in-sir-orfeo-and-the-gast-of-gy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/23/a-king-a-ghost-two-wives-and-the-triumph-of-love-romance-confession-and-penance-in-sir-orfeo-and-the-gast-of-gy/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:22:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=17437 A King, A Ghost, Two Wives, and the Triumph of Love: Romance, Confession and Penance in Sir Orfeo and The Gastof Gy Noone, Kristin Marginalia, Vol. 7 (2008) Abstract Sin, confession, penance, and love are intertwining themes in Middle English penitential romances, and the poems Sir Orfeo and The Gast of Gy are no exceptions. They fall clearly […]

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