Kristen Mossler FiggThe Short Lyric Poems of Jean Froissart
Fixed Forms and the Expression of the Courtly Ideal
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