Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Mark C. Amodio Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1994, Oral Tradition in Middle English is an edited collection providing a multidisciplinary look at the importance and nature of oral tradition in Middle English literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Oral Poetics in Post-Conquest England Introduction to the Individual Contributions 1. Literacy, Orality, and the Poetics of Middle English 2. Oral Tradition in the Middle English Romance: The Case of Robert of Cisyle 3. Tradition and Heroism in the Middle English Romances 4. The Devil’s Writing Lesson 5. Dorigen’s Promise and Scholars’ Premise: The Orality of the Speech Act in The Franklin’s Tale 6. Oral Tradition and the Canterbury Tales 7. "Now Holde Youre Mouthe". The Romance of Orality in the Thopas-Melibee Section of the Canterbury Tales 8. Wyrchipe : The Clash of Oral-Heroic and Literate-Ricardan Ideals in the Alliterative Morte Arthure 9. The Alliterative Morte Arthure As a Witness to Epic Contributors

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• Authors: Mark C. Amodio
• Assisted by: Mark C. Amodio (Editor), Sarah Gray Miller (Co-editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780367185657
• ISBN: 978-0-367-18565-7
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World; Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Middle English