A companion to medieval poetry / / edited by Corinne Saunders

• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2010]; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (703 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.109
• Soggetto topico: Civilization, Medieval, in literature; English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism
• Persona (resp. second.): SaundersCorinne J. <1963->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Companion to Medieval Poetry; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Old English Poetry; Contexts; 1 The World of Anglo-Saxon England; 2 The Old English Language and the Alliterative Tradition; 3 Old English Manuscripts and Readers; 4 Old English and Latin Poetic Traditions; Genres and Modes; 5 Germanic Legend and Old English Heroic Poetry; 6 Old English Biblical and Devotional Poetry; 7 Old English Wisdom Poetry; 8 Old English Epic Poetry: Beowulf; Part II Middle English Poetry; Contexts ; 9 The World of Medieval England: From the Norman Conquest to the Fourteenth Century10 Middle English Language and Poetry; 11 Middle English Manuscripts and Readers; Genres and Modes; 12 Legendary History and Chronicle: Lazamon's Brut and the Chronicle Tradition; 13 Medieval Debate-Poetry and The Owl and the Nightingale; 14 Lyrics, Sacred and Secular; 15 Macaronic Poetry; 16 Popular Romance; 17 Arthurian and Courtly Romance; 18 Alliterative Poetry: Religion and Morality; 19 Alliterative Poetry and Politics; Poets and Poems; 20 The Poet of Pearl, Cleanness and Patience ; 21 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight22 William Langland: Piers Plowman; 23 Chaucer's Love Visions; 24 Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; 25 Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales; 26 The Poetry of John Gower; Part III Post-Chaucerian and Fifteenth-Century Poetry; Contexts; 27 England in the Long Fifteenth Century; 28 Poetic Language in the Fifteenth Century; 29 Manuscript and Print: Books, Readers and Writers; Poets and Poems; 30 Hoccleve and Lydgate; 31 Women and Writing; 32 Medieval Scottish Poetry; 33 Courtiers and Courtly Poetry; 34 Drama: Sacred and Secular ; Epilogue: Afterlives of Medieval English PoetryIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the 15th century. Organised into three parts to echo the chronological and stylistic divisions between the Anglo-Saxon, Middle English and Post-Chaucerian periods, each section is introduced with contextual essays, providing a valuable introduction to the society and culture of the timeCombines a general discussion of genres of medieval poetry, with specific consideration of texts and authors, inclu
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to medieval poetry
• ISBN: 1-78268-614-2; 1-282-54824-7; 9786612548246; 1-4051-9742-0; 1-4443-1909-4; 1-4443-1910-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830443203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture.