Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780367185657 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 298 str.

Mark C. Amodio

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Mark C. Amodio