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A Companion to Medieval Poetry

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Corinne Saunders
39,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	12.02.2010
ISBN/EAN:	9781444319101
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	704

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MEDIEVAL POETRY 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 15th 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 two, 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xvi Introduction 1 Corinne Saunders Part I Old English Poetry 11 Contexts 13 1 The World of Anglo-Saxon England 15 Andy Orchard 2 The Old English Language and the Alliterative Tradition 34 Richard Dance 3 Old English Manuscripts and Readers 51 Rohini Jayatilaka 4 Old English and Latin Poetic Traditions 65 Andy Orchard Genres and Modes 83 5 Germanic Legend and Old English Heroic Poetry 85 Hugh Magennis 6 Old English Biblical and Devotional Poetry 101 Daniel Anlezark 7 Old English Wisdom Poetry 125 David Ashurst 8 Old English Epic Poetry: Beowulf141 Daniel Anlezark Part II Middle English Poetry 161 Contexts 163 9 The World of Medieval England: From the Norman Conquest to the Fourteenth Century 165 Conor McCarthy 10 Middle English Language and Poetry 181 Simon Horobin 11 Middle English Manuscripts and Readers 196 Ralph Hanna Genres and Modes 217 12 Legendary History and Chronicle: Lazamon’s Brut and the Chronicle Tradition 219 Lucy Perry 13 Medieval Debate-Poetry and The Owl and the Nightingale 237 Neil Cartlidge 14 Lyrics, Sacred and Secular 258 David Fuller 15 Macaronic Poetry 277 Elizabeth Archibald 16 Popular Romance 289 Nancy Mason Bradbury 17 Arthurian and Courtly Romance 308 Rosalind Field 18 Alliterative Poetry: Religion and Morality 329 John Scattergood 19 Alliterative Poetry and Politics 349 John Scattergood Poets and Poems 367 20 The Poet of Pearl, Cleanness and Patience 369 A. V. C. Schmidt 21 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 385 Tony Davenport 22 Langland’s Piers Plowman 401 Lawrence Warner 23 Chaucer’s Love Visions 414 Helen Phillips 24 Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde 435 Alcuin Blamires 25 Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales 452 Corinne Saunders 26 The Poetry of John Gower 476 R. F. Yeager Part III Post-Chaucerian and Fifteenth-Century Poetry 497 Contexts 499 27 England in the Long Fifteenth Century 501 Matthew Woodcock 28 Poetic Language in the Fifteenth Century 520 A. S. G. Edwards 29 Manuscript and Print: Books, Readers and Writers 538 Julia Boffey Poets and Poems 555 30 Hoccleve and Lydgate 557 Daniel Wakelin 31 Women and Writing 575 C. Annette Grisé 32 Medieval Scottish Poetry 592 Douglas Gray 33 Courtiers and Courtly Poetry 608 Barry Windeatt 34 Drama: Sacred and Secular 626 Pamela King Epilogue: Afterlives of Medieval English Poetry 647 Corinne Saunders Index 661

Rezension

“It is impossible within the confines of a review article to do justice to every – or, indeed, to any – chapter in this well-thought-out book. As a ‘companion’, it is to be revisited with enjoyment for its many new insights on familiar and well-loved material and its confident handling of new approaches to the study of medieval English poetry.” (Parergon, 2012) "This is, however, a minor quibble; the essays in this book provide very useful introductions to the subjects they cover, and seem well placed to become standard basic reference works on medieval English poetry". (Medium Aevum, 2011) "This Blackwell Companion to Medieval Poetry is a very fine resource for students and teachers alike. It is particularly commendable for its wide scope, ranging from the earliest Old English texts to the poetry of late-medieval England (post-Chaucerian), as well as for its clear attention both to wider context, and to genre, modes and authors, and occasionally to individual texts, such as Chaucer's love visions, Troilus, or The Canterbury Tales (each of which receives its own chapter)." (Routledge ABES, 2011)

Autorenportrait

Corinne Saunders is Professor in the Department of English Studies and Director of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Durham. A specialist in medieval literature and the history of ideas, her recent publications include Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England (2001), A Companion to Romance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture (co-edited with Jane Macnaughton, 2005), Pearl (co-edited with David Fuller, 2005), A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006), The Body and the Arts (co-edited with Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton, 2009), and Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance (2010). She is the English editor of the international journal of Medieval Studies, Medium Ævum.

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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 15th 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 two, 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.