03671nam 2200733Ia 450 991095367390332120251117095322.01-136-59715-81-136-59716-60-203-34750-110.4324/9780203347508 (CKB)2550000000096882(EBL)957849(OCoLC)798531497(SSID)ssj0000622607(PQKBManifestationID)11926372(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622607(PQKBWorkID)10642798(PQKB)10612328(MiAaPQ)EBC957849(Au-PeEL)EBL957849(CaPaEBR)ebr10542167(CaONFJC)MIL761274(OCoLC)900285318(OCoLC)711041415(FINmELB)ELB139082(EXLCZ)99255000000009688220110511d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBiblical paradigms in medieval English literature from Caedmon to Malory /Lawrence BessermanNew York Routledge20121 online resource (237 p.)Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture ;1Description based upon print version of record.0-415-74422-9 0-415-89794-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature: From Cædmonto Malory; 1. Biblical Paradigms in Old English Verse: Cædmon's Hymn, Exodus,and Beowulf; 2. Sacred and Secular in the Middle English Lyric: "Maiden in the Moor Lay"and "I Sing of a Maiden; 3. Sacred and Secular in the World of Romance: SGGK The Idea of the Green Knight; 4. Biblical Analogies and the Language of Love in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde5. Chivalry and the Scandal of the Sacred in Malory's Le Morte DarthurConclusion; Notes; References; IndexThis book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions. That is, medieval English writers could appropriate biblical paradigms to express secular themes, and vice versa. Codicological, psychoanalytic, feminist, and new historicist insights inform readings of Beowulf, Middle English lyric poetry, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, and Malory, among others. Besserman elucidates the structural and thematic complexity Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture ;1.English literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismLiterature, MedievalHistory and criticismEnglish literatureOld English, ca. 450-1100History and criticismHoly, The, in literatureSecularism in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Literature, MedievalHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Holy, The, in literature.Secularism in literature.820.9/001Besserman Lawrence L.1945-902681MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953673903321Biblical paradigms in medieval English literature4486334UNINA