Maureen N. McLane

Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

This 2008 text shows how Romantic poetry was powerfully shaped by oral modes of poetic construction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780521895767
• ISBN-10: 0521895766
• Artikelnr.: 25427688

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Dating orality, thinking balladry: of minstrels and milkmaids in 1771
2. How to do things with ballads: fieldwork and the archive in late-eighteenth-century Britain
3. Tuning the multi-media nation: minstrelsy of the Afro-Scottish border
4. How to do things with minstrels: poetry and historicity
5. Minstrelsy, or, Romantic poetry
6. Seven types of poetic authority circa 1800
7. British Romantic mediality and beyond: reflections on the fate of 'orality'
Conclusion. Thirteen (or more) ways of looking at a black bird: or, poiesis unbound.