Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts vs Reading the Renaissance: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Histoire et critique, Literary, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir
Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts
Published in 1999, the ten essays in this collection identify and examine reworkings of identifiable source texts from the medieval or Renaissance periods. The reasons for the modern adaptations depend variously on an…
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Reading the Renaissance
Approaching the Renaissance from many perspectives-historicism, genre studies, close reading, anthropology, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and postmodernism-these original essays explore the boundaries…
The verdict
- Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 5 for Reading the Renaissance.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts | Reading the Renaissance | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.0 (1) |
Reception
| Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts | Reading the Renaissance | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | — | 1 |
| Editions | 6 | 13 |
| Want to read | — | 4 |
| Pages | 176 | 304 |