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Simple forms : essays on medieval English popular literature
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ISBN: 9780198706090 019870609X 0191810487 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written texts which have survived from the medieval period and on the popular literature provided by literate authors for audiences of hearers or readers with varying degrees of literacy, Douglas Gray leads new readers to a productively complicated understanding of the relationship between medieval popular culture and the culture of the learned. He argues that medieval society was stratified, in what seems to us a rigid way, but that culturally it was more flexible. Literary topics, themes, and forms moved; there was much borrowing, and a constant interaction. Popular tales, motifs, and ideas passed into learned or courtly works; learned forms and attitudes made their way in into popular culture. All in all this seems to have been a fruitful symbiosis. The book's twelve chapters are principally organised genre, covering epics, ballads, popular romances, folktales, the German sage, legends, animal tales and fables, proverbs, riddles, satires, songs, and drama.


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The warrior women of Islam : female empowerment in Arabic popular literature
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ISBN: 9781848859272 9781848859265 1848859279 1848859260 Year: 2014 Publisher: London ; New York I.B. Tauris Publishers

Textualization of oral epics
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ISBN: 3110169282 3110825848 9783110169287 Year: 2000 Volume: 128 Publisher: Berlin de Gruyter


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Fictionalizing the past : historical characters in Arabic popular epic : workshop held at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 28th-29th of November 2007 in honor of Remke Kruk.
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ISBN: 9789042924918 9042924918 Year: 2012 Volume: 206 Publisher: Leuven Peeters

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The present collection of articles deals with the relation between the Arabic popular epic and 'official' historiography. The Arabic popular epic can be considered as popular history since it represents a way in which a large, but mainly illiterate audience perceives, conceptualizes and commemorates history. Using methods based in literary criticism, modern research has come up with new and refreshing approaches to study the historicity of the heroic literature. The contributors to this volume are all experts in the field of the Arabic popular epic. They examine which narrative structures popular epics share with historiography and how historical characters and events are fictionalized in order to create the story. Each contribution deals with a different epic, including Sirat 'Antar, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan, al-Iskandar, al-Amira Dhat al-Himma, al-Zahir Baybars, Bani Hilal, and epics in the Thousand and One Nights. One so far rather unknown epic, the Sirat al-Hakim bi-Amrillah, is discussed here in detail for the first time.

The faiths of Oscar Wilde : Catholicism, folklore and Ireland.
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ISBN: 1403948941 1349525278 9786610425662 1280425660 0230503551 Year: 2005 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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