Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 13001579

About the author

Amanda Holton, Lecturer in Old and Middle English, Hertford College, Oxford, and Lecturer in the English language at Jesus, Keble, Oriel, Queen's, and Worcester Colleges, Oxford. Amanda Holton read English at Oxford, where she took her undergraduate and graduate degrees. She has taught at Oxford since 1999, and has also worked at the universities of Reading and Southampton. She teaches the English language, and English literature from the early medieval period up to the sixteenth century. Her research interests are in Chaucer, the medieval and sixteenth-century love lyric, and poetics, with an emphasis on how form precedes and generates meaning. She is interested in interrogating the agendas which drive the taxonomy of poetic form, and in challenging the division still made between medieval and early modern literature.

Summary

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather a powerful force which fundamentally determines subject-matter. It focuses on the relationship between rhyme and ideas about love in courtly lyrics between 1300 and 1579.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Holton, Amanda (Lecturer in English Holton, Holton Amanda
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9780192873545
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287354-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 14th century, c 1300 to c 1399, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets