Author: Joan Kerr
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Category : Alliteration
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Tense and Narrative Style in Middle English Alliterative Poetry
Author: Joan Kerr
Publisher:
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Category : Alliteration
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Publisher:
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Category : Alliteration
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry
Author: Thorlac Turville-Petre
Publisher: Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud
ISBN: 1786941430
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The characteristic alliterative poem of the 14th and 15th centuries tells a story of incident and adventure: it is pre-eminently the poetry of narrative. Yet it is also, more than any other kind of medieval verse, remarkable for passages of vivid description, taking advantage of the extraordinary rich verbal resources of the alliterative poets and the characteristic strengths of the alliterative line. Memorable examples are the green chapel in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the storm at sea in Patience, the dream-landscape in Pearl, and the mysterious tomb in St Erkenwald; there are violent battle-scenes, descriptions of hunting and hawking, beautiful meadows and terrifying mountains, purling streams and wild rivers. Here is a seeming contradiction, or at least a tension that needs to be explored. The descriptive passages are digressions that interrupt the narrative; the story must pause to take in a visual effect. In Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry, Thorlac Turville-Petre explores this relationship between description and narrative, and the contribution of description to the narrative. Passages from all the major alliterative poems are analysed, and translated as necessary, so that the book may meet the needs of students as well as scholars familiar with the language and the topics discussed.
Publisher: Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud
ISBN: 1786941430
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The characteristic alliterative poem of the 14th and 15th centuries tells a story of incident and adventure: it is pre-eminently the poetry of narrative. Yet it is also, more than any other kind of medieval verse, remarkable for passages of vivid description, taking advantage of the extraordinary rich verbal resources of the alliterative poets and the characteristic strengths of the alliterative line. Memorable examples are the green chapel in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the storm at sea in Patience, the dream-landscape in Pearl, and the mysterious tomb in St Erkenwald; there are violent battle-scenes, descriptions of hunting and hawking, beautiful meadows and terrifying mountains, purling streams and wild rivers. Here is a seeming contradiction, or at least a tension that needs to be explored. The descriptive passages are digressions that interrupt the narrative; the story must pause to take in a visual effect. In Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry, Thorlac Turville-Petre explores this relationship between description and narrative, and the contribution of description to the narrative. Passages from all the major alliterative poems are analysed, and translated as necessary, so that the book may meet the needs of students as well as scholars familiar with the language and the topics discussed.
Middle English Alliterative Poetry and Its Literary Background
Author: David Lawton
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative
Author: John M. Ganim
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400855179
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
John M. Ganim presents a revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet to the reader. His work shows how the increasingly compromised exemplary intent of later medieval poets led them to dramatize the reader as a character in the text and to develop complex forms of narrative characterized by discontinuity, distortion, and disorientation. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400855179
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
John M. Ganim presents a revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet to the reader. His work shows how the increasingly compromised exemplary intent of later medieval poets led them to dramatize the reader as a character in the text and to develop complex forms of narrative characterized by discontinuity, distortion, and disorientation. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Old English and Middle English Poetry
Author: Derek Albert Pearsall
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Alliterative Poetry in Middle English
Author: James Parker Oakden
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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Alliterative Poetry in Middle English
Author: James Parker Oakden
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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The Literary Geography of Middle English Alliteratiave Long-line Poetry
Author: Patricia Ann Byles Cathcart Price
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Alliterative poetry of the later Middle Ages
Author: Thorlac Turville-Petre
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Alliterative Poetry in Middle English
Author: James Parker Oakden
Publisher:
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Category : Alliteration
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category : Alliteration
Languages : en
Pages :
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