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" A companion to medieval poetry / "
edited by Corinne Saunders
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BL
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642205
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A companion to medieval poetry /\ edited by Corinne Saunders
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| Publication Statement
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Chichester, U.K. ;Malden, MA :: Wiley-Blackwell,, 2010
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;; 67
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xvii, 683 p. ;; 26 cm
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9781405159630 (hc : alk. paper)
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: 1405159634
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Part I. Old English poetry. The world of Anglo-Saxon England / Andy Orchard ; The Old English language and the alliterative tradition / Richard Dance ; Old English manuscripts and readers / Rohinin Jayatilaka ; Old English and Latin poetic traditions / Andy Orchard ; Germanic legend and Old English heroic poetry / Hugh Magennis ; Old English biblical and devotional poetry / Daniel Anlezark ; Old English wisdom poetry / David Ashurst ; Old English epic poetry: 'Beowulf' / Daniel Anlezark -- Part II. Middle English poetry. The world of medieval England: from the Norman conquest to the fourteenth century / Conor McCarthy ; Middle English language and poetry / Simon Horobin ; Middle English manuscripts and readers / Ralph Hanna ; Legendary history and chronicle: Lazamon's 'Brut' and the chronicle tradition / Lucy Perry ; Medieval debate-poetry and 'The owl and the nightingale' / Neil Cartlidge ; Lyrics, sacred and secular / David Fuller ; Macaronic poetry / Elizabeth Archibald ; Popular romance / Nancy Mason Bradbury ; Arthurian and courtly romance / Rosalind Field ; Alliterative poetry: religion and morality / John Sacttergood ; Alliterative poetry and politics / John Scattergood ; The poet of 'Pearl,' 'Cleanness' and 'Patience' / A.V.C. Schmidt ; 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' / Tony Davenport ; Langland's 'Piers Plowman' / Lawrence Warner ; Chaucer's love visions / Helen Phillips ; Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' / Alcuin Blamires ; Chaucer's 'The Canterbury tales' / Corinne Saunders ; The poetry of John Gower / R.F. Yeager -- Part III. Post-Chaucerian and fifteenth-century poetry. England in the long fifteenth century / Matthew Woodcock ; Poetic language in the fifteenth century / A.S.G. Edwards ; Manuscript and print: books, readers and writers / Julia Boffey ; Hoccleve and Lydgate / Daniel Wakelin ; Women and writing / C. Annette Grisé ; Medieval Scottish poetry / Douglas Gray ; Courtiers and courtly poetry / Barry Windeatt ; Drama: sacred and secular / Pamela King -- Epilogue: Afterlives of medieval English poetry / Corinne Saunders
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"In a series of original essays from leading literary scholars, this Companion offers a chronological sweep of medieval poetry from Old English to the great genres of romance, narrative and alliterative poetry of the fifteenth century." "Beginning in the Anglo-Saxon period, the volume explores the Old English language and its alliterative tradition, before moving on to examine the genres of heroic, devotional, wisdom and epic poetry, culminating in a discussion of arguably the founding text of the English literary canon, the great epic Beowulf." "In Part II, the Companion moves on to discuss the linguistic and social changes brought about as a result of the Norman Conquest, exploring how this influenced the development of literary genres. Essays probe the shifts and continuities in genres such as lyric, chronicle and dream vision, and the emergence of new genres such as popular and courtly romance, and drama. A particular focus is the continuation of the alliterative tradition from the Anglo-Saxon period to the fifteenth century. A series of chapters on major authors, including Chaucer, Gower and Langland, provide fresh approaches to reading and studying key texts, such as The Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." "Finally, the collection examines cultural change at the close of the medieval period and the variety of literature produced in the 'long fifteenth century', including writing by and for women, Scots poetry, clerical and courtly works, and secular and sacred drama." --Book Jacket
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English poetry-- Middle English, 1100-1500-- History and criticism
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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821/.109
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PR313.C65 2010
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Saunders, Corinne J.,1963-
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