The Alliterative Tradition In The Fourteenth Century
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The Alliterative Tradition in the Fourteenth Century
Author | : Bernard S. Levy,Paul E. Szarmach |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015005068757 |
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Medieval Dream Poetry
Author | : A. C. Spearing |
Publsiher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1976-11-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521211948 |
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This 1976 book is a study of the medieval English dream-poem set against classical and medieval visionary and religious writings.
Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century
Author | : Jesse M. Gellrich |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1995-03-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781400821662 |
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This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the advance of literacy than previously supposed. In contrast to the view of orality and literacy as opposing forces, the book maintains that the power of language consists in displacement, the capacity of one channel of language to take the place of the other, to make the source disappear into the copy. Appreciating the interplay between oral and written language makes possible for the first time a way of understanding the high literate achievements of this century in relation to momentous developments in social and political life. Part I reasseses the "nominalism" of Ockham and the "realism" of Wyclif through discussions of their major treatises on language and government. Part II argues that the chronicle histories of this century are tied specifically to oral customs, and Part III shows how Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer's Knight's Tale confront outright the displacement of language and dominion. Informed by recent discussions in critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology, the book offers a new synoptic view of fourteenth-century culture. As a critique of the social context of medieval literacy, it speaks directly to postmodern debate about the politics of historicism today.
The Knight on His Quest
Author | : Piotr Sadowski |
Publsiher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 087413580X |
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This book offers an integrated interpretative analysis of the major thematic aspects of the English fourteenth-century romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The chief aim of author Piotr Sadowski is to look at the contents of the narrative in their entirety and to take full advantage of the poem's exceptional and widely praised harmony of structure and design. Within that design, Sadowski focuses on the poem's presentation of the main protagonist and his adventures, seen first of all as a generalized metaphor of the human life understood as a spiritual quest, and, in a more historical sense, as an expression and critique of certain ideals, values, and anxieties that characterized the late medieval institutions of the court, chivalry, and the Church. Sadowski built the interpretive framework of Sir Gawain from an eclectic theoretical base that he believes is most valuable and useful in approaching medieval literature. The main focus of the study remains the literary text itself, created by an author who communicates his view of the world through the poem.
The English Alliterative Tradition
Author | : Thomas Cable |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781512803853 |
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The meter of Middle English alliterative poetry, Thomas Cable contends, holds the key to a reinterpretation of both Old English meter and iambic pentameter, which in turn provides a new understanding of Middle English meter itself. Drawing upon recent insights in linguistics, Cable articulates a revolutionary theory of rhythm in English poetry from its beginnings through the Renaissance and beyond. Cable's discussion moves from the rhythms of Old English poetry and prose to the poetry of Chaucer and the Alliterative Revival, to Shakespeare and T. S. Eliot. He demonstrates that Middle English poetry does not show the continuity of tradition that standard authorities have asserted. With the Norman Conquest of 1066 came a clear break, and what followed was a drastic misreading by the poets of what had come before. Throughout the book, Cable constantly asks fundamental questions regarding the intentions of the poet, the impact of the perceived metrical tradition upon that poet, and, with reference to Peircean abduction, the possibility of constructing any metrical theory, especially one from the distant past. The answers and their implications—metrical, cognitive, and philosophical—provide the foundation for a new understanding of the creation and evolution of English versification from the seventh century to the present. The English Alliterative Tradition is a major and controversial study in medieval English poetics that illustrates and clarifies key ideas of the New Philology. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Old and Middle English, prosody, and historical linguistics.
Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition
Author | : E.L. Risden |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2018-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781476634326 |
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The 14th century English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is admired for its morally complex plot and brilliant poetics. A chivalric romance placed in an Arthurian setting, it has since received acclaim for its commentary regarding important socio-political and religious concerns. The poem’s technical brilliance blends psychological depth and vivid language to produce an effect widely considered superior to any other work of the time. Although the poem is a combination of English alliterative meter, romanticism, and a wide-ranging knowledge of Celtic lore, continental materials and Latin classics, the extent to which Classical antecedents affected or directed the poem is a point of continued controversy among literary scholars. This collection of essays by scholars of diverse interests addresses this puzzling and fascinating question. The introduction provides an expansive background for the topic, and subsequent essays explore the extent to which classical Greek, Roman, Arabic, Christian and Celtic influences are revealed in the poem's opening and closing allusions, themes, and composition. Essays discuss the way in which the anonymous author of Sir Gawain employs figural echoes of classical materials, cultural memoirs of past British tradition, and romantic re-textualizations of Trojan and British literature. It is argued that Sir Gawain may be understood as an Aeneas, Achilles, or Odysseus figure, while the British situation in the 14th century may be understood as analogous to that of ancient Troy.
English Alliterative Verse
Author | : Eric Weiskott |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107169654 |
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A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.
The Alliterative Revival
Author | : Thorlac Turville-Petre |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0874719550 |
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