Companion to the Middle English Lyric

AvThomas G. Duncan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Comprehensive survey of the Middle English lyric, one of the most important forms of medieval literature.Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardThe Middle English lyric occupies a place of considerable importance in the history of English literature. Here, for the first time in English, are found many features of formal and thematic importance: they include rhyme scheme, stanzaic form, the carol genre, love poetry in the manner of the troubadour poets, and devotional poems focusing on the love, suffering and compassion of Christ and theVirgin Mary. The essays in this volume aim to provide both background information on and new assessments of the lyric. By treating Middle English lyrics chapter by chapter according to their kinds - poems dealing with love, with religious devotion, with moral, political and popular themes, and those associated with preaching - it provides the awareness of their characteristic cultural contexts and literary modalities necessary for an informed critical reading. Full account is taken of the scholarship upon which our knowledge of these lyrics rests, especially the outstanding contributions of the last few decades and such recent insights as those of gender criticism. Also included are detailed discussions of the valuable information afforded by the widely varying manuscript contexts in which Middle English lyrics survive and of the diverse issues involved in editing these texts. Separate chapters are devotedto the carol, which came to prominence in the fifteenth century, and to Middle Scots lyrics which, at the end of the Middle English lyric tradition, present some sophisticated productions of an entirely new order.Contributors: Julia Boffey, Thomas G. Duncan, John Scattergood, Vincent Gillespie, Christiania Whitehead, Douglas Gray, Karl Reichl, Thorlac Turville-Petre, Alan J. Fletcher, Bernard O'Donoghue, Sarah Stanbury and Alasdair A. MacDonald.THOMAS G. DUNCAN is Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of St Andrews

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-10-27
Mått:156 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt:844 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9781843840657

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Christiania Whitehead is Privat Docent and senior research fellow at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland JOHN SCATTERGOOD is Professor (Emeritus) of Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin. JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London.

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A very successful collection of articles on the shorter poems of medieval England and Scotland.

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Introduction - Thomas G. DuncanMiddle English Lyrics: Metre and Editorial Practice - Thomas G. DuncanThe love lyric before Chaucer - John ScattergoodMoral and Penitential Lyrics - Vincent GillespieMiddle English Religious Lyrics - Christiania WhiteheadMiddle English Courtly Lyrics: Chaucer to Henry VIII - D GrayThe Middle English Carol - Karl ReichlPolitical Lyrics - Thorlac Turville-PetreThe Lyric in the Sermon - Alan J Fletcher'Cuius Contrarium': Middle English Popular Lyrics - Bernard O'DonoghueGender and Voice in Middle English Religious Lyrics - Sarah StanburyLyrics in Middle Scots -

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