The Context of the Middle English Lyrics
Author | : Robert Michael Holaday |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Michael Holaday |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Gibson Duncan |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843840650 |
Aims to provide both background information on and assessments of the lyric. This work includes features of formal and thematic importance: they are rhyme scheme, stanzaic form, the carol genre, love poetry in the manner of the troubadour poets, and devotional poems focusing on the love, and suffering and compassion of Christ and the Virgin Mary.
Author | : Reginald Thorne Davies |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780810100756 |
Contains over 180 poems, songs, and carols of medieval England in Middle English with extensive linguistic and critical notes.
Author | : Robert David Stevick |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9780252063794 |
Stevick's classic work remains the only text of its kind aimed at fostering the linguistic competence necessary to understand its poems in Middle English. The wide range of lyric poems in the book are normalized to a Chaucerian dialect. The introduction has been revised to take into account the scholarship and criticism published since the first edition appeared in 1964. It gives the background for the poetry, explains how and why the texts are normalized, and reviews significant critical scholarly studies of the works. Included is a section on morphology and grammar that introduces students to the language of the lyrics, and a section on the evolving meter of Middle English. "A fine piece of work. . . . Learned, wide-ranging, and judicious." -- John B. Friedman, author of The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought "An impressive collection. Stevick's decision to normalize the texts makes it highly accessible." -- Ralph Hanna III, University of California, Riverside
Author | : Julia Boffey |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2018-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843844976 |
A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse.
Author | : Thomas Gibson Duncan |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This is a new edition and selection of the corpus of anonymous medieval English lyrics, drawing on love lyrics, devotional and moral lyrics and miscellaneous secular lyrics. All the texts are presented in their original forms (rather than translated into modern English, as has previously been the case with Penguin publication of these works), freshly edited from the original and normalized to accord with late 14th century London dialect.
Author | : Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This study explores the relationship of the Middle English lyric (primarily, though not exclusively, the secular lyric) to the various forms of folksong and popular song for which we have manuscript evidence or testimony from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The author interprets the poems in their cultural and manuscript contexts, but also applies structuralist and semiotic analytical methods as tools for a more systematic interpretive approach to material not immediately accessible to the present-day reader. Those medieval lyrics that can most profitably and convincingly be related to an oral popular tradition of folksong are often the ones which modern readers find most attractive and interesting. Through a context-sensitive, cultural and historical textual hermeneutic applied to such a selection of Middle English lyrics, the book attempts to shape for the reader a sense of the nature, extent and dynamics of the popular literary culture of the medieval and early modern period.
Author | : Cristina Maria Cervone |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2022-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0812298519 |
What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines, including literary criticism, musicology, art history, and cognitive science. Since the early 1900s, the poems have been categorized as “lyrics,” the term now used for most kinds of short poetry, yet neither the difficulties nor the promise of this treatment have received enough attention. In one way, the book argues, considering these poems to be lyrics obscures much of what is interesting about them. Since the nineteenth century, lyrics have been thought of as subjective and best read without reference to cultural context, yet nonetheless they are taken to form a distinct literary tradition. Since Middle English short poems are often communal and usually spoken, sung, and/or danced, this lyric template is not a good fit. In another way, however, the very differences between these poems and the later ones on which current debates about the lyric still focus suggest they have much to offer those debates, and vice versa. As its title suggests, this book thus goes back to the basics, asking fundamental questions about what these poems are, how they function formally and culturally, how they are (and are not) related to other bodies of short poetry, and how they might illuminate and be illuminated by contemporary lyric scholarship. Eleven chapters by medievalists and two responses by modernists, all in careful conversation with one another, reflect on these questions and suggest very different answers. The editors’ introduction synthesizes these answers by suggesting that these poems can most usefully be read as a kind of “play,” in several senses of that word. The book ends with eight “new Middle English lyrics” by seven contemporary poets.
Author | : Martin Camargo |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110910799 |
Author | : Emma Gorst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
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