Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry

ISBN: 9780815308300

出版社: Routledge

出版年: 1994-9

页数: 289

定价: $ 134.19

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Explores the influence of oral tradition on Middle English poetry from Layamon's 12th-century Brut to Chaucer. Approaching from a number of theoretical perspectives, the 11 essays challenge some fundamental assumptions about the context, composition, and reception of English literature at what (in