Irony in the Medieval Romance
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- Editor: Dennis Howard Green
- Date Published: November 2005
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- isbn: 9780521022163
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Despite the fashionable standing of irony in studies of modern literature and its occasional application to medieval studies in a number of recent works, no sustained analysis of this phenomenon has yet been attempted for medieval literature. Professor Green attempts to fill the most important part of this lacuna by discussing irony in the medieval genre in which it is employed most frequently and with the greatest sophistication, the romance. The approach is therefore directed more towards the genre as such than to any specific example, and, although the book is written primarily from a Germanist's point of view, it also takes into account the romances of Chrétien de Troyes and their German adaptations, various examples from the Tristan tradition in France and Germany, Flamenca as an example from Provence, as well as Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from England. Proceeding from a working definition of medieval irony and a survey of the signals which may allow us to perceive its presence, Professor Green considers the possibilities, rhetorical and otherwise, of registering irony in courtly literature at large. From this he moves on to discuss the major themes to which irony may be applied (chivalry and love), as well as the ways in which the narrative is organised so as to bring out any ironic implications of these themes. Subsequent chapters are concerned with the various types of irony to be distinguished: verbal irony, irony of the narrator, dramatic irony, the irony of values, and structural irony. A concluding chapter sums up the reasons, aesthetic and social, for the prevalence of irony in this particular genre of medieval literature.
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- Date Published: November 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521022163
- length: 444 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 154 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The possibilities of irony in courtly literature
3. Irony and chivalry
4. Irony and love
5. Irony and narrative technique
6. Verbal irony
7. Irony of the narrator
8. Dramatic irony
9. The irony of values
10. Structural irony
11. The reasons for irony in the medieval romance
Bibliography
Index of passages discussed
General index.
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