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Writing Aloud
Storytelling in Late Medieval England
Nancy Mason Bradbury
Cloth978-0-252-02403-0
$37.00
| Pub Date: | 1998 |
| Pages: | 264 pages |
Between high culture and low culture, between oral traditions and written storytelling, between performance and manuscript, there lies not a clean boundary but a dynamic, productive region of mutual influence.
Focusing on works composed at the crossroads of oral tradition and canonical literature, Nancy Mason Bradbury overturns a widespread critical view that oral transmission violates the integrity of written texts. Most medieval English romances either reflect or imitate the conditions of oral performance, and Bradbury skillfully demonstrates the importance of performance to their narrative art.
"A richly cross-disciplinary text. . . . Writing Aloud crafts powerful arguments for the presence of oral styles and folk communities in the written remains of medieval society."
-- Carl Lindahl, author of Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales
"Edifying and pleasurable to read. . . . Bradbury has written a book which will help define the direction research on the medieval English romance will take for years to come."
-- Mark C. Amodio, author of Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry
Subjects:
Medieval & Renaissance Studies / Literature, British & Irish / Folklore
