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Vocabulary terms are listed. MACHIAVELLIAN. As an adjective, the word refers generally to sneaky, ruthless. The term originates. The Prince. This work was written. Niccol. He suggests that.

Click. here for more information. MACHIEVELLE. (also spelled machiavel): A villain, especially an Italian. Niccol. Examples from Shakespeare include. Richard. of Gloucester in Richard III and Edmund and Cornwall. King Lear. MACARONIC. TEXT: Any medieval or modern manuscript. Latin and. French.

Latin and German- -is said to be macaronic. The mixture might. Examples from the Restoration.

Samuel Pepys' diary. Pepys frequently mingles Spanish and Latin words in the text. See discussion under chain.

MACROLOGIA (Grk. See discussion under periphrasis. MACRON. A diacritical mark in the form of a horizontal line indicating. MAENAD. Also known as bacchae or thyiads.

Dionysus or. Bacchus. In the mystery cult of. Dionysus. worshippers would get drunk on wine and then undergo an all- night. They would run through the forest naked. In the 1. 94. 0s and 1. Jorge. Luis Borges.

Argentina. Gabriel Garcia M. The influence also spread later to G. These postmodern writers mingle and juxtapose realistic.

This mixture create. An example of magic realism. Gabriel Garcia M. Not having the heart to club the sickly. The very premise of the story reveals much of the flavor. See discussion under Valar. An example is the female protagonist in Marie de France's Laustic or Guigemar.

MALAPROPISM. Misusing words to create a comic effect or characterize. Typically, the malapropism involves the. For instance, in Richard Sheridan's The Rivals, we hear, . The best malapropisms sound. Manet is the singular for . Later, parchment.

My Penguin Classics copy of Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi sits alone atop an overfull shelf. There is a bookmark on page 204, exactly halfway through, torn.

In the. late Roman and early Patristic period, individual pages were. Paper as we know it became common in the Middle East. Europe. By Shakespeare's. In medieval scholarship.

Some important medieval literary manuscripts. Ellesmere. the Hengwyrt. Nowell. Codex. You can click here to see the first. Beowulf from the Nowell Codex.

See also parchment. MAQAMA. Picaresque. Arabic stories in rhymed prose. The two most famous writers. Abu al- Fadl Ahmed ibn al- Husian al Hamadhani and Abu.

Mohammed al Qasim al- Hariri. M. See discussion under fairy.

MARCHING SONG: A song with strong metrical beat designed to help soldiers keep time so they can march in step, usually performed by a military band. Examples include the death march in Wagner's G. Tolkien has the Ents in The Lord of the Rings sing a tune matching the rhythmical constraints of a marching song as they head into war with Isengard in The Lord of the Rings (4. Contrast with walking song. MARGINALIA. Drawings, notation, illumination, and doodles appearing in the.

Algeo points to the example. MARRIAGE. GROUP: A term coined by George L. Kittredge in 1. 91.

Chaucer's. Canterbury Tales. The marriage group includes . The intervening tales of. Friar, Summoner, and Squire serve as interruptions of this.

Some critics. especially those who accept the . This term is an eponym from a character in Paula Smith's 1. See under. discussion of meter. MASHAL (plural. meshalim): In the Hebrew tradition. It denotes. . In Greek. Parabole were often used as a simple. In Mark, Jesus tells his disciples.

But to. those on the outside everything is said in parables so that. The common, modern. Christ uses parables for simple pedagogic purposes. A group of Jewish scholars known as the Masoretes.

Judaic biblical scholarship. CE with. a. few late additions in the tenth century. These manuscripts. Greek Septuagint. Other. differences range from the trivial to the striking. For linguists. and biblical scholars, Masoretic texts are especially important. Masoretes who wrote them introduced the Hebrew.

Previous Hebrew. texts only marked consonant sounds, which left the meaning. Hebrew. was from closely related languages such. Akkhadian, Amorite, Arabic. Online streaming Especial " Los Del Túnel" in english in ultra HD there. Ugaritic. Proto- Canaanite (which developed into both Phoenician and. Classical Hebrew), Eblaite and Elamite.

MASQUE. Not to be confused with a masquerade, a masque is a type of. Queen. Elizabeth I, King James I, and Charles I- -i.

Century after Queen Elizabeth's death. The masque as a performance grew out of medieval plays, but it was more spectacle than drama proper. The content was suitable for amateur actors rather than professional performers. The masques tended to use long speeches and little action. They combined. poetic drama, singing, dancing, music, and splendid costumes. The imagery was influential on later poets and poems, such as Andrew Marvell, who makes use of masque- imagery in . In much of the. dialogue in Viking sagas, for instance, the characters will.

MCGUFFIN (also Mac. Guffin, Maguffin): A humorous or joking term to describe an object or artifact that drives the plot as part of a quest motif. For instance, the horcrux in the Harry Potter series, the Holy Grail in Arthurian legends, the Golden Fleece in Jason and the Argonauts, and so forth. Often Alfred Hitchcock is credited for coining the phrase.

See discussion under quest motif. MEAD. HALL: A structure built by an Anglo- Saxon lord (hlaford. Since they were constructed primarily of wood. We know from descriptions in Anglo- Saxon texts that. MEDIEVAL. (from Latin medium aevum, . Actual starting and ending.

Harry. Shaw's Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms prefers. While there are no universally. European. histories to divide. The dividing line is the. Norman Conquest of England following the Battle of Hastings. French influences into.

English. Some scholars prefer to mark the years 1. European. scholars and art historians divide the medieval period into. Carolingian (c. 7. Ottonian (c. 9. 00- 1.

Romanesque (c. 1. Gothic (1. 15. 0- 1. For our literary purposes. Anglo- Saxon and Middle English periods serve. The early medieval centuries (often misleadingly. Its later stages (often called .

The. term medievalism. Europe is linked with feudalism. Catholicism in religion, and. Click here for a PDF. Click below for a. MEDIEVAL. ESTATES SATIRE: A medieval.

French poets in which the speaker lists various. The genre was not unknown in. England. See. also. MEDIEVAL. ROMANCE: See discussion under romance. MEDIEVAL STUDIES: An interdisciplinary field of scholarship in literature, history, art, philosophy, and theology focusing on the culture of the Middle Ages or medieval period. Scholars who specialize in this area are medievalists.

Among the Inklings, J. R. R. Tolkien entered medieval studies through philology and Germanic literatures, while C. S. Lewis became a medievalist via classical and Renaissance philosophy and literature- -eventually leaving Oxford to go to Cambridge and become the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance literature. Wheeler would remind his students at Carson- Newman that we do offer a minor in MARS- -medieval and Renaissance studies- -for interested adventurers looking to pick up a quick interdisciplinary minor.

John Donne's funeral service, . Litotes (especially popular. Old English. poetry) is a type of meiosis in which the writer uses a statement.

Litotes is recognizable in English by negatives like not, no, non- and un- .)MELODRAMA. A dramatic form characterized by excessive sentiment, exaggerated. Melodramas originally referred to romantic plays. These melodramatic traits are present in. Gothic novels, western stories, popular films, and television. MELOPOEIA: Ezra Pound's term for one of the three techniques he would use to create . Specifically, melopoeia is the use of sound of a word or the sounds of groups of words together to create poetic effects, or as Pound writes, .

Presumably, melopoeia might cover techniques like assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia. See also phanopoeia and logopoeia. MELUSINE MYTH: A medieval legend about a French princess who secretly transformed into a serpent or dragon in her private moments until her husband learns the truth about her real identity. Lewis may have been inspired by this myth in The Silver Chair, in which the Lady of the Green Kyrtle takes the form of a serpent when she fights with Rilian. MEME. An idea or pattern.

A meme might be. a song or advertising jingle. MEMOIR (usually.

Latin. memoria . Examples include. Winston Churchill and Dwight D. MEMOIR- NOVEL. A novel purporting to be a factual or autobiographical.

The authorial. voice or speaker is typically a made- up character who never. While this convention became less popular. Umberto. Eco's Baudolino (my own personal favorite). MEMORIAL. RECONSTRUCTION: Renaissance actors reconstructing the. Acting. companies often lost or gained members rapidly. It is possible. that some actors formerly working with Shakespeare lacked access.

These players. may have attempted to reconstruct the plays by memory. Some. scholars believe that the unbelievably sloppy bad. Shakespeare's plays may have been the. MEMORY. PLAY: The term coined by Tennessee. Williams to describe non- realistic dramas, such as The Glass. Menagerie, in which the audience experiences the past as.

See drama. scrim. MENDICANT. ORDERS (also calledfriars).

Orders of wandering monks who lived by begging. In the Middle. Ages, the clergy was divided into secular clergy and. It was composed of the priests, bishops, archbishops. The regular clergy were those otherworldly individuals. These monks would take a series of vows and agree. Latin regula means.

Some monasteries became such powerful. England, it has. been estimated that one- quarter to one- third of all available. This. situtation granted the monastic clergy political and financial. In reaction to this situation. Saint Dominic and Saint Francis. Assissi espoused the idea of a new type of religious order- -the.

Each order was given a set of duties- -the salvation. There. remain from the Middle Ages four great mendicant orders recognized. Second Council of Lyons in 1. CE: In more recent centuries.

Trent granted all the mendicant orders except.

Club. If there’s one undeniable thing to be said for Bates Motel’s style of storytelling, it’s that sometimes the show just can’t help itself. For all the efforts to remain above the often tawdry subject matter, to go arch and arty during moments of particularly noteworthy bloodshed, the reverse is just as often true: This series likes to wallow in the sleaze. It can’t resist giving winking nods when plunging into sudsy theatrics, as if to nudge the viewer in the ribs with a sly, “Eh? Can you believe what we’ve all gotten ourselves into?” And during moments like those in “The Convergence Of The Twain,” where Norman realized the man having an affair in his motel is none other than Sam Loomis, husband to Norman’s new obsession, Madeline, the A& E show does everything but pour you a glass of red wine and hand over a tray of bonbons. I hope you packed your sleeping bag and tent, because things are about to get campy. Luckily, the show gets away with it for the same reason it always has: great actors who can sell this tenor of absurdity. As Vera Farmiga settles into the role of Norma/n, she’s finding ways to play around with the hollowness of Norman’s interiorized version of his mother.

During moments of quiet, rather than the swirling eddies of emotion that used to roil behind real- life Norma’s eyes, there’s now a placidity, a surface sheen to the woman, that speaks to the incomplete nature of the person. This chimera waits for Norman to prompt every outburst, and in between saying things he imagines she would, the character sits, doll- like, only taking on deeper reserves of feeling when Norman expects her to. It’s nowhere near as rewarding as watching the actor play a flesh- and- blood human, but when she’s given juicier scenes, like her confrontation of Norman in the bathroom, there’s fun to be had in the shallower end of things. Similarly, when Farmiga and Freddie Highmore tackle a scene where Norma/n comes out to play, watching the pair offer up their respective takes on Norman’s version of his mom makes for compelling television. Norma/n order her bourbon neat, and launches into a lengthy spiel about her unhappy life as a caretaker and the ingratitude of her charge, using language just veiled enough to pass for plausible.

It’s telling that Norman would see his mother as believing only in her own long- suffering martyrdom when it comes to hiding from the world and caring for him. She recites a litany of failings in her son, saying he doesn’t even like her anymore. And the odd thing is, there’s an element of truth to that: It takes Norman a moment to reassure her that he still cares for her, and that pregnant pause speaks volumes about how much of a burden he finds caring for Norma to be. It’s as if, in order to make up for his guilt about resenting her continued presence, Norman has to make her into more of a villain, one who genuinely thinks (and would tell a complete stranger) she’s “a caretaker for a mentally ill person.”But no matter Norma/n’s complaints—there’s trash in which to revel!

Every encounter between Sam Loomis and Norman is a gold mine of shade throwing, the equivalent of a catty Real Housewives- esque sniping match on Norman’s part, and lunkheaded intimidation on the part of Sam. Davidson!” Norman exclaims when Sam comes to visit him at the motel, bearing a threat to kick his ass “across the gravel” should Norman so much as hint at Loomis’ infidelity. This version of Norman is a delight to watch, a smarmy wiseass who continually taunts Loomis with the knowledge of his failure as a husband. It’s as if the young motel manager took all those years of petulant and acidic zingers between Norma and himself and honed them into a razor- sharp edge of scorn.

It’s understandable he would develop this skill—after all, he learned from the best. And that’s not even the juiciest plot development this week. After only one day back in town, Caleb has already made a fatal mistake, and triggered the full- on Norma/n assault. Clad in blond wig and dress just like Psycho, Norman knocks out his uncle with one blow to the head. It was only a matter of time—if you start to question Norman, you either end up dead, or if you’re lucky, in prison like Alex Romero—and Caleb had already discovered the moldy mess that was the house. Still, no one wants to hear from a hotel clerk that their sister died, and Caleb’s rage drives him to storm the house, eventually winding up in the infamous cellar, where he stumbles upon Norma’s preserved body sitting in the gloom. Caleb’s too much of an unpredictable element to keep him alive, and Norman likely always continued to believe his mother hated her brother, despite the rapprochement, meaning Norma’s sibling won’t be long for this world.

Of course, that still leaves Chick. Good old Chick, was was the last person we saw getting through to Norman in the season four finale, and who has apparently become somewhat of a kindly neighbor since that time, dropping by to help Norman around the house and generally keep an eye on him. Given the new business arrangement between Norman and Chick, it seems safe to say Chick will keep quiet about Norman’s condition for the time being, if only to make some money, something he desperately needs at the moment. And given Norma/n didn’t fly at him and attack, it looks like the Bates will decide to trust him for the time being. Secrets have enough trouble being kept between Norman and his imaginary mother; their troubled little family can’t allow that kind of threat to exist in the world, no matter how crippled it may claim to be.

Stray Observations: In this series, Sam Loomis is married and divides his time between home and Seattle, unlike the original film. And it sure seems like a given that his mistress is none other than Marion Crane, a. And if that’s true, Sam may end up playing a very big role in this final season. Seriously, such delicious zingers from Norman tonight.

Sam: “I’m more of a doer.” Norman: “What is it you’re always doing, Sam?” That was quite an inscription on Norma’s tombstone. It’s a laundry list of loving titles for his departed mother, but it ends with the oft- mentioned line from throughout the series: “There’s a cord between our hearts, forever and ever until the sky falls down.”Norma, after seeing the uncanny resemblance between herself and Madeline Loomis: “Are you gonna be one of those guys?”In that episode- opening chat with Dylan and Emma, the irony about “honesty” could not have been thicker if the writers ladled it on with a shovel. Romero’s getting a transfer—and one step closer to getting at Norman.