Without seeking to reify a category of 'political romances', this study explores the participation of five Middle English poems (Havelok, The Tale of Gamelyn, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gowther, Robert of cisyle), normally classed among the romances, in the cultural process of constructing and regulating contemporary understandings of good kingship, tyranny, and community. In their participation in this discourse these romances cross generic boundaries, interacting with textual traditions (including historiography, hagiography, folk tale, and the literature of complaint), inscribing ideologies contesting romance's world-view. This study attempts to trace the ideological impact of these generic interactions on romance models of rule, investigating whether these romances cross generic boundaries in search of an idiom in which to critique dominant models of power relations, or whether, in attempting to appropriate the discourse of other genres, they seek to bolster dominant ideology by containing the subversive energies of its textual opponents. If these romances are identified as cultural products of a dominant ideology striving to perpetuate its own ascendancy, then it is a dominant ideology in the process of adapting itself in response to changing pressures, the nature of which I attempt to recover by attending to these texts' constructions and reconstructions of the hero's identity. I approach these romances not so much as the expression of the ideology of the dominant stratum, but part of the production of that ideology, called forth in a continuing dynamic response to contending discourses. I conclude that the energies of the genres with which these romances interact refuse appropriation, challenging the monologism of romance and continuing in their new narrative environment to propose their own political solutions. The resulting dialogization of romance indicates romance's diminishing ability to provide convincing resolutions to the contradictions of a changing society and to address the aspirations of a changing audience, In the ideological adjustments made by these romances in the process of interacting with other genres can be glimpsed the end of romance's insistence on heroic, and hence kingly, autonomy, and the replacement of heroic autonomy by community as the subject of romance.

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Between 1888 and 1896, William Morris wrote several medieval-inspired, proto-fantasy romances which have consistently threatened to fall into the doldrums of literary criticism. I am particularly interested, here, in the most complete of these compositions entitled The Story of the Glittering Plain, The Wood Beyond the World, The Well at the World’s End, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, and The Sundering Flood: texts which I call Morris’s late romances. Critics who have engaged with these texts have often taken on the difficult task of reconciling Morris’s growing political vehemence during the time of their composition and the ostensibly escapist stance these romances seem to purport. As such, critics have largely relied on Morris’s fidelity of the Middle Ages as a time that offered a more authentic, original, innocent, or natural mode of human experience, which Morris preferred over the industrial capitalism of his own Victorian period. Through various versions of this stance, critics have articulated that the late romances can offer socially progressive content through an outdated mode of literary production. While this dissertation maintains the significance of anti-escapist readings of these late romances, it also expresses the value of alternative readings of the critical appeal to authenticity. Using critical theories from Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, and most especially Slavoj Žižek, this dissertation suggests that any recognition of authenticity is reliant upon its own corruption and that part of the communist value of William Morris’s late romances exists not in their exemplification of a (medieval) world unblighted by modern corruption but through their demonstration of the conceptual necessity to incorporate modern corruption into any possible vision of past authenticity. That is, the late romances show that past authenticity is a product of an intellectual frame produced by modern corruption; they therefore imply that, in a similar way, communism can only become recognizable as a result of capitalist exploitation. In this way, I hope to aid in resurrecting these beautiful and valuable texts so that they can play a role in the communist struggles of the future.

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TORRES, José William Craveiro. Além da cruz e da espada: acerca dos resíduos clássicos d'a demanda do Santo Graal. 2010. 363f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza (CE), 2010. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-05-16T17:15:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_dis_jwctorres.pdf: 2684846 bytes, checksum: c050f1fb46938241c8a759dee030b082 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-05-16T17:32:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_dis_jwctorres.pdf: 2684846 bytes, checksum: c050f1fb46938241c8a759dee030b082 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-16T17:32:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_dis_jwctorres.pdf: 2684846 bytes, checksum: c050f1fb46938241c8a759dee030b082 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / The present work has as main objective to point the passages of classic content presented in the medieval novel A Demanda do Santo Graal (portuguese edition of The Quest for the Holy Grail), a novel about chivalry of the first half of the thirteenth century, in order to explain the reason why exist these passages in the novel in question. Another objective is to show how the Middle Ages realize a retaking of values of classical Antiquity, especially with regard to the attitude of the medieval knight: this was the greek hero (or roman hero) as the ideal of bravery, virtue and loyalty; the imaginary of medieval cavalier (or "the imaginary created around of the medieval knight") was practically the same imaginary of greek hero (or roman hero), because of the similarity between the historical and literary contexts in which they both arose. The theory that underpins this work is the Teoria da Residualidade, created by Roberto Pontes, critic, essayist and professor of Literature of the Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC. During the research, the concepts of imaginary and residual, proposed respectively by the École des Annales and Raymond Williams, a marxist literary critic, are also present. With regard to the methodology, it must be said that the research was conducted, at first, through readings of classics of the ancient Literature (Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses) and portuguese novels about chivalry (Amadis de Gaula and, especially, A Demanda do Santo Graal) and through comparative literature, since there was a work of comparison between these texts. Finally, this research is relevant to the academic community because it mentions, in a medieval and christian novel (A Demanda do Santo Graal), an important aspect of the novels about chivalry: the classic, so much neglected by most scholars which deal with the novels of the breton cycle. / O presente trabalho tem como principais objetivos apontar os trechos de teor clássico presentes n' A Demanda do Santo Graal (edição portuguesa), novela de cavalaria da primeira metade do século XIII, e explicar o porquê de excertos dessa natureza no âmbito da obra literária em questão. Procura, ainda, mostrar de que modo a Idade Média realiza uma retomada de valores da Antigüidade clássica; sobretudo no que concerne à postura do cavaleiro medieval: chegou-se à conclusão de que este tinha o herói que se movimenta nas epopéias e nos mitos greco-romanos como ideal de bravura, de virtude e de lealdade, bem como à de que o imaginário deste (ou “criado em torno deste”) era praticamente o mesmo daquele, por conta da semelhança existente entre os contextos histórico-literários em que surgiram ambos. A teoria que serve de base para a realização deste trabalho é a da Residualidade, elaborada por Roberto Pontes, crítico, ensaísta e professor da graduação e do programa de pós-graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC. Durante a pesquisa, os conceitos de imaginário e residual, propostos, respectivamente, pela École des Annales e por Raymond Williams, crítico literário de orientação marxista, fazem-se também presentes. No que concerne à metodologia, deve-se dizer que a pesquisa foi realizada, basicamente, por meio da leitura de clássicos da Literatura das antigas Grécia e Roma (Ilíada e Odisséia, de Homero; Eneida, de Virgílio; e Metamorfoses, de Ovídio) e de novelas de cavalaria portuguesas (Amadis de Gaula e, principalmente, A Demanda do Santo Graal), bem como por meio da Literatura Comparada, visto que houve um trabalho de confronto entre esses textos. Por fim, esta investigação mostra-se relevante à comunidade acadêmica porque aborda, numa novela tipicamente medieval e cristã (estamos falando d‟A Demanda do Santo Graal), um importante aspecto das novelas de cavalaria: o clássico, tão negligenciado pela maioria dos estudiosos que se debruçam sobre as novelas do ciclo bretão.