Court and Cloister

Studies in the Short Narrative in Honor of Glyn S. Burgess

• Author(s): Jean Blacker, Jane H. M. Taylor,
• Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
• Pages: 293
• ISBN_10: 0866985735
  ISBN_13: 9780866985734
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference , Literary Collections / European / French , Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Collections / Medieval , Literary Criticism / European / French ,

Description:... The 15 original essays in this volume represent only a few of the paths that Glyn Burgess's research career has taken: lays, by Marie de France and unknown authors; manuscript collections of lays and fabliaux; episodic narratives, from ancestral/​outlaw romance and Norman vernacular historiography; transformations of the Brendan legend; and authorial voice in religious texts, including Wace's. The diversity of content and approaches has created a volume which will serve both as a fitting tribute to Burgess's continuing influence and expertise, as well as a contribution to the growing theoretical and applied work in the area of the short narrative, which the authors extend to a very broad range of works, from fabliau to hagiography, from history to myth. This breadth of interest, within a close and analytical focus on short narrative, make this an important, indeed unique, collection.