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Penitent Knights and Courtly Saints : = Hypertextuality and Complicated Boundaries Between the Genres of Middle English Romance and Hagiography.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Penitent Knights and Courtly Saints :/
Reminder of title:	Hypertextuality and Complicated Boundaries Between the Genres of Middle English Romance and Hagiography.
Author:	DiModugno, Grace Katherine.
Description:	1 online resource (94 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International84-11.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30491914click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379536503

Penitent Knights and Courtly Saints : = Hypertextuality and Complicated Boundaries Between the Genres of Middle English Romance and Hagiography.
DiModugno, Grace Katherine.

Penitent Knights and Courtly Saints :Hypertextuality and Complicated Boundaries Between the Genres of Middle English Romance and Hagiography. - 1 online resource (94 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11.

Thesis (M.A.)--Southern Connecticut State University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

In this thesis, I explore complications surrounding genre boundaries in medieval English literature, namely the boundaries between the genres of Middle English romance and hagiography. While scholars acknowledge there to be a less rigid sense of boundaries between medieval literary genres than between modern literary genres, levels of genre complication still occur, resulting in popular medieval texts that transgress genre boundaries and defy simplistic genre classification. A primary reason the complication occurs is that there are many different versions of similar medieval narratives, written and rewritten by anonymous authors and compiled into various manuscripts. I posit that these different versions are significant because seemingly minor changes from one version of a story to another, or boundary complications arising from narrative encounters within the text, can alter the amount of genre complication occurring within a text and can make room for new readings of old texts and informative inter-readings between texts. I examine five popular medieval texts in my thesis: the Auchinleck manuscript's Guy of Warwick, The South English Legendary's The Life of St. Francis and St. George and the Dragon, and Saint Eustace and Sir Isumbras as transcribed in Codex Ashmole 61. Boundary transgression can manifest in a secular romance like Guy of Warwick by interweaving explicitly religious ideals, while a hagiography about St. George and the Dragon might have a secular focus separate from the saintly focus to obtain eternal life. Focusing on the genres of Middle English romance and hagiography, I argue that reading these medieval texts through the theoretical lenses of hypertextuality and genre trouble allows for highly specific comparisons between related texts and explores how texts' relationships are complicated through genre differences in each narrative. This approach can create a deeper understanding and value of the complexity and genre complication present within medieval texts and can further provide an understanding of the medieval audience these texts were written for.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379536503Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Medieval English literatureIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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