Short Lyric Poems of Jean Froissart - Fixed Forms and the Expression of the Courtly Ideal

Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1994, The Short Lyric Poems of Jean Froissart is a meticulous reading of the important but generally neglected short lyric poems of Jean Froissart. 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: Kristen Mossler Figg
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367185725
• ISBN: 978-0-367-18572-5
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets