A Book of Middle English

3. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1709-8
Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400.

* New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook.

* Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional dialects.

* Now includes extracts from 'Pearl' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'.

* Bibliographic references have been updated throughout.

* Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.

Zielgruppe

beginning students of medieval English literature and language, general readers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burrow, J. A.

Turville-Petre, Thorlac

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations.

Preface to the Third Edition.

Abbreviations.

Part One.

1 Introducing Middle English.

2 Pronouncing Middle English.

3 Vocabulary.

4 Inflexions.

5 Syntax.

6 Metre.

7 From Manuscript to Printed Text.

8 Select Bibliography.

Part Two: Prose and Verse Texts.

Note on Treatment of Texts.

1 The Peterborough Chronicle 1137.

2 The Owl and the Nightingale.

3 LaÇamon: Brut.

4 Ancrene Wisse.

5 Sir Orfeo.

6 The Cloud of Unknowing.

7 William Langland: Piers Plowman.

8 Patience.

9 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

10 Pearl.

11 St Erkenwald.

12 John Trevisa: Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk.

13 John Gower: Confessio Amantis.

14 Lyrics.

15 The York Play of the Crucifixion.

16 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls.

17 Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus.

18 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales.

Textual Notes.

Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

J.A. Burrow is Emeritus Professor at Bristol University. His many publications include Medieval Writers and their Work (1982) and Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative (2002).

Thorlac Turville-Petre is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Nottingham. His previous publications include England the Nation (1996) and The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 2: Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.15.19 (CD-ROM, 2000).