Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry

Herausgeber: Amodio, Mark C.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780367185657
• ISBN-10: 0367185652
• Artikelnr.: 75708500

Autorenporträt

Mark C. Amodio

Inhaltsangabe

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