Author: Janet Epstein ThormannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Formulaic Elements of Language, Structure and Theme in the Parlement of the Thre Ages, an Alliterative Poem of the Fourteenth Century
Author: Janet Epstein ThormannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Dissertations in English and American Literature
Author: Lawrence Francis McNameePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Dissertations in English and American Literature
Author: Laurence F. McNameePublisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: Language and literature
Author: Xerox University MicrofilmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: Author index
Author: Xerox University MicrofilmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Comprehensive Dissertation Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
Author: Ian CorneliusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108211089
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
The poetry we call 'alliterative' is recorded in English from the seventh century until the sixteenth, and includes Caedmon's 'Hymn', Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. These are some of the most admired works of medieval English literature, and also among the most enigmatic. The formal practice of alliterative poets exceeded the conceptual grasp of medieval literary theory; theorists are still playing catch-up today. This book explains the distinctive nature of alliterative meter, explores its differences from subsequent accentual-syllabic forms, and advances a reformed understanding of medieval English literary history. The startling formal variety of Piers Plowman and other Middle English alliterative poems comes into sharper focus when viewed in diachronic perspective: the meter was in transition; to understand it, we need to know where it came from and where it was headed at the moment it died out.
Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century
Author: Jesse M GellrichPublisher:
ISBN: 9781400816019
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the advance of literary than scholarship has previously recognized. In contrast to the view of orality and literacy as contending forces of opposition, the book maintains that the power of language consists in displacement, the capacity of one channel of language to take the place of the other, to make the source disappear into the copy. Appreciating the interplay between oral and written language makes possible for the first time a way of understanding the high literate achievements of this century in relation to momentous developments in social and political life.
English Alliterative Verse
Author: Eric WeiskottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107169658
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.