Medieval Writers and their Work: Middle English Literature 1100-1500

ISBN-13: 9780199532049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str.

University of J. A. (Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow

Opis

The single best general introduction to the texts and contexts of Middle English. It is informative, well written, and very sensible. Every advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate student in the field should read it. - James H. Morey, Texas Tech University.

Recenzje

This book is the most effective introduction to Middle English literature that I know. It is everywhere alert to the ways that modern literary sensibilities need to be adjusted in order to appreciate the medieval norm, and Burrow combines astonishing learning with a pedagogical shrewdness that always picks out just the telling passage or focusing cultural fact. This second edition adds a great deal of new and equally important material to a work that had already become a classic in its own right.