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Readings in Medieval Poetry

Readings in Medieval Poetry

Readings in Medieval Poetry

Author:
A. C. Spearing
Published:
May 1989
Availability:
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Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780521311335

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    Readings in Medieval Poetry is a linked collection of essays on such poems as the Song of Roland, King Horn, Havelok, Sir Orfeo, Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, House of Fame and Troilus and Criseyde, the alliterative Morte Arthure, The Siege of Jerusalem, Purity, Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. The connecting purpose is to open up a variety of kinds of medieval poetry to modern readers; and, while the methods used vary with the kinds of poetry being discussed, they frequently involve, along with historical treatments in terms of medieval practices and systems of ideas, the adoption and adaptation of theoretical frameworks borrowed from outside the medieval field.

    Product details

    • Published: May 1989
    • Format: Paperback
    • ISBN: 9780521311335
    • Length: 284 pages
    • Dimensions: 217 × 140 × 16 mm
    • Weight: 0.36kg
    • Availability: Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • 1. Elaborated and restricted codes
    • 2. Early medieval narrative style
    • 3. Interpreting a medieval romance
    • 4. Early Chaucer
    • 5. Narrative closure: the end of Troilus and Criseyde
    • 6. Alliterative poetry
    • 7. Purity and danger
    • 8. The Gawain-poet's sense of an ending
    • 9. Piers Plowman: allegory and verbal practice
    • Notes
    • Index.

    Author

    A. C. Spearing