Author: Helen Estabrook SandisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The "chanson D'aventure" in Middle English
Author: Helen Estabrook SandisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Middle English
Author: Paul StrohmPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019928766X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This volume energizes issues of research in Middle English studies by eschewing an emphasis on what 'we know' and instead addressing the most challenging areas of unfixed opinion and unsettled debate. Although major authors such as Chaucer and Langland are richly represented, many little-known and neglected texts are considered as well.
A Companion to the Middle English Lyric
Author: Thomas Gibson DuncanPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843840650
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Aims to provide both background information on and assessments of the lyric. This work includes features of formal and thematic importance: they are rhyme scheme, stanzaic form, the carol genre, love poetry in the manner of the troubadour poets, and devotional poems focusing on the love, and suffering and compassion of Christ and the Virgin Mary.
Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry
Author: Takami MatsudaPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859915076
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The concept of Purgatory in Middle English didactic writings is explored through examination of visions of the afterlife, sermons, homiletic treatises, and lyrics.
The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem
Author: Rosemary GreentreePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859916219
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
This Bibliography assembles annotation of collections and criticism of lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and rhymes of everyday life. The Middle English lyrics and short poems form a varied group that ranges over most aspects of life to include lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and mundane rhymes of everyday life. Thus there are expressionsof devotion, ethereal or earthly, theological expositions, and knowledge needed for life. The poems are disparate and generally anonymous, and their survival owes much to chance. The bibliography assembles neutral annotation of collections and criticism of the works, arranged chronologically to show the course of criticism and the growing appreciation of these poems and all they can tell us. The introduction considers these matters, problems of definitionof the genre, and the isolable lyrics, and seeks to reconcile some first impressions of the poems, as disparate and slight, with the rewards of close study. ROSEMARY GREENTREE is currently Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of English, University of Adelaide.
The Middle English Legends of Visits to the Other World and Their Relation to the Metrical Romances
Author: Elizabeth WillsonPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Register of Middle English Religious & Didactic Verse: Index of first lines and Index of subjects and titles
Author: Carleton BrownPublisher:
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Category : Christian poetry, English (Middle)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?
Author: Cristina Maria CervonePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812298519
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines, including literary criticism, musicology, art history, and cognitive science. Since the early 1900s, the poems have been categorized as “lyrics,” the term now used for most kinds of short poetry, yet neither the difficulties nor the promise of this treatment have received enough attention. In one way, the book argues, considering these poems to be lyrics obscures much of what is interesting about them. Since the nineteenth century, lyrics have been thought of as subjective and best read without reference to cultural context, yet nonetheless they are taken to form a distinct literary tradition. Since Middle English short poems are often communal and usually spoken, sung, and/or danced, this lyric template is not a good fit. In another way, however, the very differences between these poems and the later ones on which current debates about the lyric still focus suggest they have much to offer those debates, and vice versa. As its title suggests, this book thus goes back to the basics, asking fundamental questions about what these poems are, how they function formally and culturally, how they are (and are not) related to other bodies of short poetry, and how they might illuminate and be illuminated by contemporary lyric scholarship. Eleven chapters by medievalists and two responses by modernists, all in careful conversation with one another, reflect on these questions and suggest very different answers. The editors’ introduction synthesizes these answers by suggesting that these poems can most usefully be read as a kind of “play,” in several senses of that word. The book ends with eight “new Middle English lyrics” by seven contemporary poets.
A Register of Middle English Religious & Didactic Verse: List of manuscripts
Author: Carleton BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, English (Middle)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Obscene Pedagogies
Author: Carissa M. HarrisPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150173041X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. Harris's own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.