Michael J. Warren (Royalty Account)

Birds in Medieval English Poetry

Metaphors, Realities, Transformations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower.

Produktdetails

• Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 269
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781843845911
• ISBN-10: 1843845911
• Artikelnr.: 60200772

Autorenporträt

MICHAEL J. WARREN is currently Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway University, where he gained his PhD.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Native Foreigners: Migrating Seabirds and the Pelagic Soul in
The Seafarer Avian Pedagogies: Wondering with Birds in the Exeter Book
Riddles A Bird's Worth: Mis-Representing Owls in The Owl and the
Nightingale 'Kek Kek': Translating Birds in The Parliament of Fowls Birds'
Form: Enabling Desire and Identities in Confessio Amantis Epilogue
Glossary: Old and Middle English bird names Bibliography