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- Middle English Marvels: Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fou
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Pennsylvania STATE University Press
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Middle English Marvels : Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century
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Medieval, Subjects & Themes / General, Europe / Medieval, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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2018
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Reviews
"Presents a fascinating perspective on perceptions of the marvellous and magical in the high Middle Ages, especially in terms of how it relates to other aspects of the study of mediaeval magic." --Fortean Times, "A well-written, accessible, and insightful volume, and one of clear interest to scholars of Middle English literature, particularly of romance. And it may well prove very useful, too, for teaching. . . . The value of this study is in the further speculation on texts like those discussed it stimulates, and on larger questions about language and literary tradition--and the role wonder can play in our own ethical engagement with the world." --Lisa M. C. Weston, Modern Philology, "Williams's book adds to growing scholarly interest in medieval magic and marvels. She demonstrates that these themes functioned differently in medieval literature than they did in medieval scientific and theological writings, which were more interested in drawing sharp distinctions between the natural and miraculous or the magical and the divine." --Andrew Fogleman, Comitatus, "A subtle, readable, and learned analysis of the 'theory of the marvelous' developed by writers of Middle English romances. This book makes a significant contribution not only to romance studies itself but also to the growing body of work on the flexible relationships between the different types of medieval wonder and on their aesthetic and ethical implications. Middle English Marvels will be of equal interest to scholars and their students." --Nicholas Watson, coeditor of The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love, "Dr. Williams offers a close reading and deep meditation on important poems from this period, thoroughly engages and profits from the secondary literature, and leads her readers into a new way of appreciating the power of story to occasion personal and collective development, then and now." --Patrick Madigan, Heythrop Journal, "This book offers a tantalizing glimpse into an intriguing topic, the convergence of marvels, morality, and spectacle. By selecting the marvellous, Williams has chosen to consider a key feature of medieval literature, one that includes divine intervention, supernatural transformations, and the wondrous workings of technology." --Natalie Goodison, Medium Aevum, "Presents a fascinating perspective on perceptions of the marvellous and magical in the high Middle Ages, especially in terms of how it relates to other aspects of the study of mediaeval magic." -Fortean Times, " Middle English Marvels articulates a new aspect to our understanding of the role of marvels, it adds dimension to our understanding of the importance of magic in vernacular literary culture, and it demonstrates the extent to which wonder was mobilized to foster moral contemplation. Grounded in deft textual interpretation, this book will be a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on marvels and wonder for scholars in literary and medieval studies." -E. R. Truitt, Speculum, "Williams's deft survey of fourteenth-century Middle English literary texts reveals a moral theory of the marvelous, which she traces from the actions it provokes in Orfeo and Lybeaus Desconus to the reflections it inspires in the Canterbury Tales . Through investigations of spectacle and the cognitive effects of wonder, situated in contexts ranging from genre to manuscripts to history and philosophy, Middle English Marvels offers a new understanding of how magic encourages moral contemplation in characters and readers, then and now." -Myra Seaman, coeditor of Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism, "A universal appeal underlies this book's particular exploration of how Middle English literary spectacles function in a handful of 14th-century texts. . . . Williams contributes to the scholarly discussion material that will be useful for understanding traditional elements such as plot, character, and theme and also postmodern interest in identity and alterity." --A. P. Church Choice, "A universal appeal underlies this book's particular exploration of how Middle English literary spectacles function in a handful of 14th-century texts. . . . Williams contributes to the scholarly discussion material that will be useful for understanding traditional elements such as plot, character, and theme and also postmodern interest in identity and alterity." --A. P. Church, Choice, "This book offers a tantalizing glimpse into an intriguing topic, the convergence of marvels, morality, and spectacle. By selecting the marvellous, Williams has chosen to consider a key feature of medieval literature, one that includes divine intervention, supernatural transformations, and the wondrous workings of technology." -Natalie Goodison, Medium Aevum, "There is no shortage of works on marvel, wonder, and magic in Middle English literature and beyond. Yet, despite entering this fairly well-trodden field, Williams's study offers a novel theory of the marvelous in Middle English literature that is moreover firmly contextualized within the historical context of the fourteenth century and deftly illustrated through a detailed analysis of a selection of key texts from the period." --Sif Rikhardsdottir Studies in the Age of Chaucer, "This a solid albeit selective study of a number of romance texts that go against the grain of their times, well documented in terms of its recognition of recent relevant secondary studies. Its greatest contribution is to stress that the medieval public for romance and the marvelous was not simply awestruck by a wonder but recognized its disparity with the quotidian as the fortuitous occasion for reflection and perhaps personal reassessment." --William Sayers Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, "Williams's book extends the considerable amount of work on a number of interlocking concepts that has been produced over the last few decades: on 'marvels' and the 'marvelous'; 'wonder' (what one does when one is faced with a marvel, or something marvelous); 'magic and the supernatural,' treated as parallel notions; the 'otherworld,' or 'otherworlds.'" --Marilyn Corrie Journal of British Studies, "A universal appeal underlies this book's particular exploration of how Middle English literary spectacles function in a handful of 14th-century texts. . . . Williams contributes to the scholarly discussion material that will be useful for understanding traditional elements such as plot, character, and theme and also postmodern interest in identity and alterity." -A. P. Church, Choice, "Williams's deft survey of fourteenth-century Middle English literary texts reveals a moral theory of the marvelous, which she traces from the actions it provokes in Orfeo and Lybeaus Desconus to the reflections it inspires in the Canterbury Tales. Through investigations of spectacle and the cognitive effects of wonder, situated in contexts ranging from genre to manuscripts to history and philosophy, Middle English Marvels offers a new understanding of how magic encourages moral contemplation in characters and readers, then and now." --Myra Seaman, coeditor of Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism, "This book offers a tantalizing glimpse into an intriguing topic, the convergence of marvels, morality, and spectacle. By selecting the marvellous, Williams has chosen to consider a key feature of medieval literature, one that includes divine intervention, supernatural transformations, and the wondrous workings of technology." --Natalie Goodison Medium Aevum, "Dr. Williams offers a close reading and deep meditation on important poems from this period, thoroughly engages and profits from the secondary literature, and leads her readers into a new way of appreciating the power of story to occasion personal and collective development, then and now." --Patrick Madigan Heythrop Journal, " Middle English Marvels articulates a new aspect to our understanding of the role of marvels, it adds dimension to our understanding of the importance of magic in vernacular literary culture, and it demonstrates the extent to which wonder was mobilized to foster moral contemplation. Grounded in deft textual interpretation, this book will be a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on marvels and wonder for scholars in literary and medieval studies." --E. R. Truitt Speculum, "An insightful study that examines literary magic in fourteenth-century England on its own terms. Through a series of subtle readings, Tara Williams identifies a previously unnoticed concatenation of magic, spectacle, and reflections on morality among a group of vernacular romances that construct their own view of the marvelous. This book makes a valuable contribution to magic studies and to affect studies through the ethical use of wonder." --Lee Manion, author of Narrating the Crusades: Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature, "Williams's work is a welcome addition to romance criticism and Middle English literary scholarship. Beyond these immediate fields, those readers with an interest in questions of gender and monstrosity, morality and ethics, and of course magic and the marvelous should certainly avail themselves of this book, which will appeal to scholars, students, and individuals with a general interest in these subjects, thanks in no small part to Williams's skill in writing accessibly and engagingly, as well as critically." -Melissa Ridley Elmes, Preternature, "Williams's work is a welcome addition to romance criticism and Middle English literary scholarship. Beyond these immediate fields, those readers with an interest in questions of gender and monstrosity, morality and ethics, and of course magic and the marvelous should certainly avail themselves of this book, which will appeal to scholars, students, and individuals with a general interest in these subjects, thanks in no small part to Williams's skill in writing accessibly and engagingly, as well as critically." --Melissa Ridley Elmes Preternature, "Dr. Williams offers a close reading and deep meditation on important poems from this period, thoroughly engages and profits from the secondary literature, and leads her readers into a new way of appreciating the power of story to occasion personal and collective development, then and now." -Patrick Madigan, Heythrop Journal, "A well-written, accessible, and insightful volume, and one of clear interest to scholars of Middle English literature, particularly of romance. And it may well prove very useful, too, for teaching. . . . The value of this study is in the further speculation on texts like those discussed it stimulates, and on larger questions about language and literary tradition--and the role wonder can play in our own ethical engagement with the world." --Lisa M. C. Weston Modern Philology, "There is no shortage of works on marvel, wonder, and magic in Middle English literature and beyond. Yet, despite entering this fairly well-trodden field, Williams's study offers a novel theory of the marvelous in Middle English literature that is moreover firmly contextualized within the historical context of the fourteenth century and deftly illustrated through a detailed analysis of a selection of key texts from the period." -Sif Rikhardsdottir, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, "A subtle, readable, and learned analysis of the 'theory of the marvelous' developed by writers of Middle English romances. This book makes a significant contribution not only to romance studies itself but also to the growing body of work on the flexible relationships between the different types of medieval wonder and on their aesthetic and ethical implications. Middle English Marvels will be of equal interest to scholars and their students." -Nicholas Watson, coeditor of The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love, "Williams's book extends the considerable amount of work on a number of interlocking concepts that has been produced over the last few decades: on 'marvels' and the 'marvelous'; 'wonder' (what one does when one is faced with a marvel, or something marvelous); 'magic and the supernatural,' treated as parallel notions; the 'otherworld,' or 'otherworlds.'" -Marilyn Corrie, Journal of British Studies, "An insightful study that examines literary magic in fourteenth-century England on its own terms. Through a series of subtle readings, Tara Williams identifies a previously unnoticed concatenation of magic, spectacle, and reflections on morality among a group of vernacular romances that construct their own view of the marvelous. This book makes a valuable contribution to magic studies and to affect studies through the ethical use of wonder." --Lee Manion,author of Narrating the Crusades: Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature, "A subtle, readable, and learned analysis of the 'theory of the marvelous' developed by writers of Middle English romances. This book makes a significant contribution not only to romance studies itself but also to the growing body of work on the flexible relationships between the different types of medieval wonder and on their aesthetic and ethical implications. Middle English Marvels will be of equal interest to scholars and their students." --Nicholas Watson,coeditor of The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love, "Williams's book adds to growing scholarly interest in medieval magic and marvels. She demonstrates that these themes functioned differently in medieval literature than they did in medieval scientific and theological writings, which were more interested in drawing sharp distinctions between the natural and miraculous or the magical and the divine." --Andrew Fogleman Comitatus, "Williams's deft survey of fourteenth-century Middle English literary texts reveals a moral theory of the marvelous, which she traces from the actions it provokes in Orfeo and Lybeaus Desconus to the reflections it inspires in the Canterbury Tales . Through investigations of spectacle and the cognitive effects of wonder, situated in contexts ranging from genre to manuscripts to history and philosophy, Middle English Marvels offers a new understanding of how magic encourages moral contemplation in characters and readers, then and now." --Myra Seaman,coeditor of Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism, "This a solid albeit selective study of a number of romance texts that go against the grain of their times, well documented in terms of its recognition of recent relevant secondary studies. Its greatest contribution is to stress that the medieval public for romance and the marvelous was not simply awestruck by a wonder but recognized its disparity with the quotidian as the fortuitous occasion for reflection and perhaps personal reassessment." -William Sayers, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, "A well-written, accessible, and insightful volume, and one of clear interest to scholars of Middle English literature, particularly of romance. And it may well prove very useful, too, for teaching. . . . The value of this study is in the further speculation on texts like those discussed it stimulates, and on larger questions about language and literary tradition-and the role wonder can play in our own ethical engagement with the world." -Lisa M. C. Weston, Modern Philology, "Williams's book extends the considerable amount of work on a number of interlocking concepts that has been produced over the last few decades: on 'marvels' and the 'marvelous'; 'wonder' (what one does when one is faced with a marvel, or something marvelous); 'magic and the supernatural,' treated as parallel notions; the 'otherworld,' or 'otherworlds.'" --Marilyn Corrie, Journal of British Studies, "Williams's deft survey of fourteenth-century Middle English literary texts reveals a moral theory of the marvelous, which she traces from the actions it provokes in Orfeo and Lybeaus Desconus to the reflections it inspires in the Canterbury Tales . Through investigations of spectacle and the cognitive effects of wonder, situated in contexts ranging from genre to manuscripts to history and philosophy, Middle English Marvels offers a new understanding of how magic encourages moral contemplation in characters and readers, then and now." --Myra Seaman, coeditor of Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism, "Presents a fascinating perspective on perceptions of the marvellous and magical in the high Middle Ages, especially in terms of how it relates to other aspects of the study of mediaeval magic." - Fortean Times, "There is no shortage of works on marvel, wonder, and magic in Middle English literature and beyond. Yet, despite entering this fairly well-trodden field, Williams's study offers a novel theory of the marvelous in Middle English literature that is moreover firmly contextualized within the historical context of the fourteenth century and deftly illustrated through a detailed analysis of a selection of key texts from the period." --Sif Rikhardsdottir, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, "This a solid albeit selective study of a number of romance texts that go against the grain of their times, well documented in terms of its recognition of recent relevant secondary studies. Its greatest contribution is to stress that the medieval public for romance and the marvelous was not simply awestruck by a wonder but recognized its disparity with the quotidian as the fortuitous occasion for reflection and perhaps personal reassessment." --William Sayers, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, "Williams's deft survey of fourteenth-century Middle English literary texts reveals a moral theory of the marvelous, which she traces from the actions it provokes in Orfeo and Lybeaus Desconus to the reflections it inspires in the Canterbury Tales. Through investigations of spectacle and the cognitive effects of wonder, situated in contexts ranging from genre to manuscripts to history and philosophy, Middle English Marvels offers a new understanding of how magic encourages moral contemplation in characters and readers, then and now." -Myra Seaman, coeditor of Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism, "Presents a fascinating perspective on perceptions of the marvellous and magical in the high Middle Ages, especially in terms of how it relates to other aspects of the study of mediaeval magic." -- Fortean Times, " Middle English Marvels articulates a new aspect to our understanding of the role of marvels, it adds dimension to our understanding of the importance of magic in vernacular literary culture, and it demonstrates the extent to which wonder was mobilized to foster moral contemplation. Grounded in deft textual interpretation, this book will be a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on marvels and wonder for scholars in literary and medieval studies." --E. R. Truitt, Speculum, "Williams's work is a welcome addition to romance criticism and Middle English literary scholarship. Beyond these immediate fields, those readers with an interest in questions of gender and monstrosity, morality and ethics, and of course magic and the marvelous should certainly avail themselves of this book, which will appeal to scholars, students, and individuals with a general interest in these subjects, thanks in no small part to Williams's skill in writing accessibly and engagingly, as well as critically." --Melissa Ridley Elmes, Preternature, "An insightful study that examines literary magic in fourteenth-century England on its own terms. Through a series of subtle readings, Tara Williams identifies a previously unnoticed concatenation of magic, spectacle, and reflections on morality among a group of vernacular romances that construct their own view of the marvelous. This book makes a valuable contribution to magic studies and to affect studies through the ethical use of wonder." -Lee Manion, author of Narrating the Crusades: Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature, "Williams's book adds to growing scholarly interest in medieval magic and marvels. She demonstrates that these themes functioned differently in medieval literature than they did in medieval scientific and theological writings, which were more interested in drawing sharp distinctions between the natural and miraculous or the magical and the divine." -Andrew Fogleman, Comitatus
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Table Of Content
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Marvels Matter 1. Mirroring Otherworlds: Fairy Magic, Wonder, and Morality 2. Revealing Spectacles: Virtue and Identity in Fair Unknowns 3. Moving Marvels: Action and Agency in Courtly Spectacles 4. Talking Magic: Chaucer's Spectacles of Language Conclusion: How Marvels Matter Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
A multidisciplinary interpretation of representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances, and how these texts link magic, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways. By representing supernatural marvels in vivid visual detail, these texts encourage reactions of wonder that have moral effects within and beyond the ......, A multidisciplinary interpretation of representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances, and how these texts link magic, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways. By representing supernatural marvels in vivid visual detail, these texts encourage reactions of wonder that have moral effects within and beyond the narrative., This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways. Supernatural marvels represented in vivid visual detail are foundational to the characteristic Middle English genres of romance and hagiography. In Middle English Marvels , Tara Williams explores the didactic and affective potential of secular representations of magic and shows how fourteenth-century English writers tested the limits of that potential. Drawing on works by Augustine, Gervase of Tilbury, Chaucer, and the anonymous poets of Sir Orfeo and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , among others, Williams examines how such marvels might convey moral messages within and beyond the narrative. She analyzes examples from both highly canonical and more esoteric texts and examines marvels that involve magic and transformation, invoke visual spectacle, and invite moral reflection on how one should relate to others. Within this shared framework, Williams finds distinct concerns--chivalry, identity, agency, and language--that intersect with the marvelous in significant ways. Integrating literary and historical approaches to the study of magic, this volume convincingly shows how certain fourteenth-century texts eschewed the predominant trends and developed a new theory of the marvelous. Williams's engaging, erudite study will be of special interest to scholars of the occult, the medieval and early modern eras, and literature.
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