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The Oxford History of Poetry in English

Volume 2. Medieval Poetry: 1100-1400

Herausgeber: Cooper, Helen; Edwards, Robert R

Beschreibung

This volume reflects the multiplicity of English poetry between 1100 and 1400. The chapters focus on the historical, linguistic, and poetic transitions of the period, including major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression.

Autor

Helen Cooper is Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. She holds Emeritus and Honorary Fellowships at University College, Oxford, and a Life Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She has particular interests in the cultural continuations across the medieval and early modern periods. Her books include Pastoral: Mediaeval into Renaissance; Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; The English Romance in Time; Shakespeare and the Medieval World; and the editorial material to the Oxford World's Classics Malory: Morte Darthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Robert R. Edwards is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University. His chief areas of research and teaching are the English, Romance, and Latin literatures of the Middle Ages. His other interests include textual culture, medieval literary theory, and poetics. He has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation and fellowships from the National Humanities Center and Clare Hall, Cambridge. His current projects are an edition of Troilus and Criseyde for the Cambridge University Press edition of Chaucer's works and a study of medieval English literary reception.

Produktdetails

• Oxford History of Poetry in English
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 178mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1140g
• ISBN-13: 9780198827429
• ISBN-10: 0198827423
• Artikelnr.: 66174963