The Oxford History of Poetry in English

Volume 2. Medieval Poetry: 1100-1400

AvHelen Cooper,Robert R. Edwards

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes.This volume occupies both a foundational and a revolutionary place. Its opening date--1100--marks the re-emergence of a vernacular poetic record in English after the political and cultural disruption of the Norman Conquest. By its end date--1400--English poetry had become an established, if still evolving, literary tradition. The period between these dates sees major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression. Middle English poetry reflects the influence of multiple contexts--history, social institutions, manuscript production, old and new models of versification, medieval poetic theory, and the other literary languages of England. It thus emphasizes the aesthetic, imaginative treatment of new and received materials by medieval writers and the formal craft required for their verse. Individual chapters treat the representation of national history and mythology, contemporary issues, and the shared doctrine and learning provided by sacred and secular sources, including the Bible. Throughout the period, lyric and romance figure prominently as genres and poetic modes, while some works hover enticingly on the boundary of genre and discursive forms. The volume ends with chapters on the major writers of the late fourteenth-century (Langland, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, and Gower) and with a look forward to the reception of something like a national literary tradition in fifteenth-century literary culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-23
Mått:178 x 253 x 35 mm
Vikt:1 138 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford History of Poetry in English
Antal sidor:548
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198827429

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Helen Cooper is Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. She holds Emeritus and Honorary Fellowships at University College, Oxford, and a Life Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She has particular interests in the cultural continuations across the medieval and early modern periods. Her books include Pastoral: Mediaeval into Renaissance; Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; The English Romance in Time; Shakespeare and the Medieval World; and the editorial material to the Oxford World's Classics Malory: Morte Darthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Robert R. Edwards is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University. His chief areas of research and teaching are the English, Romance, and Latin literatures of the Middle Ages. His other interests include textual culture, medieval literary theory, and poetics. He has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation and fellowships from the National Humanities Center and Clare Hall, Cambridge. His current projects are an edition of Troilus and Criseyde for the Cambridge University Press edition of Chaucer's works and a study of medieval English literary reception.

Recensioner i media

The great achievement of the 1100-1400 volume is that it takes seriously its 300-year time span...The volume does not set out to tell a story of teleological progress,...Instead we follow multiple strands of poetic culture and are encouraged to think about medieval English poetry on its own terms.

Innehållsförteckning

1: Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards: Introduction Part I. Contexts 2: Laura Ashe: Historical and Political Changes: The Norman Conquest to the Hundred Years' War 3: Ralph Hanna: Poetic Sites 4: Simon Horobin: Manuscripts: The Textual Record of Middle English Poetry Part II. Literary Culture 5: Richard Dance: The Poetic Field, I: Old and Middle English Language and Poetry 6: Siân Echard: The Poetic Field, II: Anglo-Latin 7: Keith Busby: The Poetic Field, III: Anglo-French 8: Victoria Flood: The Poetic Field, IV: Welsh 9: Ad Putter: Verse Forms 10: Andrew Galloway: Poetic and Literary Theory Part III. 'Matere' 11: Caroline D. Eckhardt: Poetry and National History 12: Craig E. Bertolet: Poetry in its Age: Satire and Complaint 13: Stephen M. Yeager: Doctrine and Learning 14: Jacqueline Tasioulas: Poetry and the Bible 15: Karen A. Winstead: Saints' Lives and Sacred Biography Part IV. Genre Poetics 16: Christopher Cannon: Narrative on the Margins: Tales and Fabliaux 17: Denis Renevey: Religious and Didactic Lyrics 18: Susanna Fein: Secular Lyrics 19: Rhiannon Purdie: Non-Cycle Romances of Love 20: Wolfram R. Keller: Romances of the Ancient World 21: Elizabeth Archibald: The Matter of Britain 22: Marcel Elias: Crusade Romances and the Matter of France 23: Andrew James Johnston: The 'Matter of England' Part V. The Ricardian Poets 24: Nicolette Zeeman: Piers Plowman 25: Helen Cooper: The Gawain-Poet 26: David Lawton: Chaucer's Courtly Poetry 27: Barry Windeatt: The Canterbury Tales 28: R. F. Yeager: John Gower 29: Julia Boffey: The Reception of the Middle English Poetic Tradition