A. C. Spearing, Spearing A. C.

Readings in Medieval Poetry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Readings in Medieval Poetry is a linked collection of essays on such poems as the Song of Roland, King Horn, Havelok, and Sir Orfeo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780521311335
• ISBN-10: 0521311330
• Artikelnr.: 26845937

Inhaltsangabe

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.