Saunders A Companion to Medieval Poetry

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1910-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 704 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series oforiginal essays from leading literary scholars that explore Englishpoetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the15th century.
* Organised into three parts to echo the chronological andstylistic divisions between the Anglo-Saxon, Middle English andPost-Chaucerian periods, each section is introduced with contextualessays, providing a valuable introduction to the society andculture of the time
* Combines a general discussion of genres of medieval poetry,with specific consideration of texts and authors, includingBeowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer,Gower and Langland
* Features original essays by eminent scholars, including AndyOrchard, Carl Schmidt, Douglas Gray, and BarryWindeatt, who present a range of theoretical,historical, and cultural approaches to reading medieval poetry, aswell as offering close analysis of individual texts andtraditions

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saunders, Corinne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures x
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xvi
Introduction 1
Corinne Saunders
Part I Old English Poetry 11
Contexts 13
1 The World of Anglo-Saxon England 15
Andy Orchard
2 The Old English Language and the Alliterative Tradition 34
Richard Dance
3 Old English Manuscripts and Readers 51
Rohini Jayatilaka
4 Old English and Latin Poetic Traditions 65
Andy Orchard
Genres and Modes 83
5 Germanic Legend and Old English Heroic Poetry 85
Hugh Magennis
6 Old English Biblical and Devotional Poetry 101
Daniel Anlezark
7 Old English Wisdom Poetry 125
David Ashurst
8 Old English Epic Poetry: Beowulf 141
Daniel Anlezark
Part II Middle English Poetry 161
Contexts 163
9 The World of Medieval England: From the Norman Conquest to the Fourteenth Century 165
Conor McCarthy
10 Middle English Language and Poetry 181
Simon Horobin
11 Middle English Manuscripts and Readers 196
Ralph Hanna
Genres and Modes 217
12 Legendary History and Chronicle: La3amon's Brut and the Chronicle Tradition 219
Lucy Perry
13 Medieval Debate-Poetry and The Owl and the Nightingale 237
Neil Cartlidge
14 Lyrics, Sacred and Secular 258
David Fuller
15 Macaronic Poetry 277
Elizabeth Archibald
16 Popular Romance 289
Nancy Mason Bradbury
17 Arthurian and Courtly Romance 308
Rosalind Field
18 Alliterative Poetry: Religion and Morality 329
John Scattergood
19 Alliterative Poetry and Politics 349
John Scattergood
Poets and Poems 367
20 The Poet of Pearl, Cleanness and Patience 369
A. V. C. Schmidt
21 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 385
Tony Davenport
22 Langland's Piers Plowman 401
Lawrence Warner
23 Chaucer's Love Visions 414
Helen Phillips
24 Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde 435
Alcuin Blamires
25 Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales 452
Corinne Saunders
26 The Poetry of John Gower 476
R. F. Yeager
Part III Post-Chaucerian and Fifteenth-Century Poetry 497
Contexts 499
27 England in the Long Fifteenth Century 501
Matthew Woodcock
28 Poetic Language in the Fifteenth Century 520
A. S. G. Edwards
29 Manuscript and Print: Books, Readers and Writers 538
Julia Boffey
Poets and Poems 555
30 Hoccleve and Lydgate 557
Daniel Wakelin
31 Women and Writing 575
C. Annette Grisé
32 Medieval Scottish Poetry 592
Douglas Gray
33 Courtiers and Courtly Poetry 608
Barry Windeatt
34 Drama: Sacred and Secular 626
Pamela King
Epilogue: Afterlives of Medieval English Poetry 647
Corinne Saunders
Index 661

Über Autor(innen)

Corinne Saunders is Professor in the Department of English Studies and Director of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Durham. A specialist in medieval literature and the history of ideas, her recent publications include Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England (2001), A Companion to Romance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture (co-edited with Jane Macnaughton, 2005), Pearl (co-edited with David Fuller, 2005), A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006), The Body and the Arts (co-edited with Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton, 2009), and Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance (2010). She is the English editor of the international journal of Medieval Studies, Medium Ævum.