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标题：INSULAR SOURCES AND ANALOGUES OF THE OTHERWORLD IN THE MIDDLE ENGLISH SIR ORFEO
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作者：Jordi Sánchez Martí
期刊名称：The Grove - Working Papers on English Studies
印刷版ISSN：2386-5431
出版年度：2018
卷号：24
DOI：10.17561/grove.v24.a6
语种：English
出版社：Universidad de Jaén. Servicio de Publicaciones
摘要：The Middle English Sir Orfeo presents a medievalized version of the classical myth of Orpheus that shows the influence of Celtic lore. Modern scholars seem to have accepted the views of A. J. Bliss, the editor of the Middle English romance, who argues that the English text is a translation of an Anglo-Norman or Old French version. Since we have no textual evidence that can positively support Bliss’s hypothesis, this article tests the possibility that the Middle English romance actually represents an insular tradition of the Orpheus myth that originated in Anglo-Saxon times with King Alfred’s rendering of the story and continued evolving by means of oral-memorial transmission until the fourteenth century, when the English romance was written down in the Auchinleck manuscript.
关键词：Sir Orfeo;King Alfred;Otherworld;Walter Map;Marie de France;Geoffrey of Monmouth