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Corinne J. Saunders's exploration of the topos of the forest, a familiar and ubiquitous motif in the literature of the middle ages, is a broad study embracing a range of medieval and Elizabethan exts from the twelft to the sixteenth centuries: the roman d'antiquite, Breton lay and courtly romance, the hagiographical tradition of the Vita Merlini and the Queste del Saint Graal, Spenser and Shakespeare. Saunders identifies the forest as a primary romance landscape, as a place of adventure, love, and spiritual vision... offers a pleasurable overview of the narrative function of the forest as a literary landscape. Based on a close comparative [and theoretically non-partisan] reading of a broad range of literary texts drawn from the Europeqan canon, Saunders's study explores the continuity and transformation of an important motif in the corpus of medieval literature. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEWDr CORINNE SAUNDERSteaches in the Department of English at the University of Durham. [BLURBEXTRACTED FROM TLS REVIEW] ...An immense tract, not only of medieval literature but of human experience [is] engagingly introduced and presented here...Corinne Saunders considers first forests in reality (a reality which keeps breaking through in romance...). She looks also at the classical and biblical models including Virgil, Statius and Nebuchadnezzar...only then does she turn to the non-real and non-Classical, i.e. the medieval and romantic. Here she follows a clear chronological plan from twelfth to fifteenth centuries [also covering] the allegorized landscape of Spenser and the lovers' woods of Arden or Athens in Shakespeare. Her text-by-text layout does justice to the variety of possibilities taken up by different authors; the forest as a place where men run mad and turn into animals, a place of voluntary suffering, a focus of significance in the Grail-quests, a lovers' bower; above all and centrally, the place where the knight is tested and defined, even (as with Perceval) created.

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Valuable for its discussions of medieval English and French romances and lays, and especially for its survey of their varieties of wooded landscape - idyllic and exilic, amorous and adventurous. MEDIUM AEVUMCorinne Saunders tackles [forests] with practicality and a clear scheme... she follows a clear chronological plan from 12th to 15th centuries. Her text-by-text layout does justice to the variety of possibilities taken up by different authors. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT [Tom Shippey 07/01/94]Elegant volume... will be essential to future research in the field. STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCERA useful contribution to our understanding of romance narratives. LEEDS STUDIES IN ENGLISH
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The motif of the forest in medieval romance finds its origins in the historical forest of the middle ages and the Biblical tradition of the wilderness, as well as in the classical philosophical tradition of the word 'silva'. Classical literature presented the forest as a landscape associated with the supernatural and with potentiality, ideas which were rewritten with a courtly emphasis in the 'roman d'antiquite'. As the chivalric romance form developed over the course of the twelfth century, the forest formed the landscape of the quest. The idea of the idyllic landscape, most developed in the 'Tristan' romances, and the recurring concept of the other or supernatural world drawn from Breton material, are interwoven with this presentation of the forest. These themes were transformed in the thirteenth century by the allegorical forest of the Grail Quest, so that by the fourteenth century the potential of the forest as a literary motif was considerable.Individual middle English romances such as 'Sir Orfeo', 'Sir Launfal', 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale' demonstrate the complex thematic interplay associated with the forest as sophisticated romance convention.

SirThomas Malory's 'Morte Darthur' offers a final and culminative reworking of the forest of medieval romance, drawing together diverse themes to create a landscape poised between romance and reality, before the transformation of the forest into the highly self-conscious and psychological landscape of Renaissance literature, including the plays of Shakespeare. Throughout, Dr Saunders employs close textual analysis and comparison within a chronological framework to show how the forestof medieval romance developed as a literary construction with its own logic, associations and ramifications. Dr CORINNE SAUNDERS teaches in the Department of English at the University of Durham.

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