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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
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monografia Rebiun34937811 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun34937811 cr#nn#nnnannan 220725s2010 enka ob 001 0 eng d 1-282-54824-7 1-4051-9742-0 1-4443-1909-4 1-4443-1910-8 1-78268-614-2 9786612548246 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ BUS eng 821.111-1"1100/1500" A companion to medieval poetry edited by Corinne Saunders Servicio en línea London, England Wiley-Blackwell [2010] London, England London, England Wiley-Blackwell 2010 1 recurso electrónico (703 páginas) 1 recurso electrónico (703 páginas) Texto txt rdacontent ordenador c rdamedia recurso en línea cr rdacarrier Blackwell companions to literature and culture Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index 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 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 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 Epilogue: Afterlives of Medieval English PoetryIndex 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 1830038 Grado en Estudios Ingleses Poesía en Lengua Inglesa I English Poesía inglesa- 1100-1500 (Inglés medieval) Saunders, Corinne J. 1963-) editor Wiley Books (Servicio en línea)-2023 1-4051-5963-4 Blackwell companions to literature and culture