Medieval English poetry
The essays in this volume consider a range of poetic texts written in England between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, with the exception of works by Chaucer, and represent some of the exciting new developments in medieval studies over the last twenty years. The collection explores and interrogates the established canon of Middle English poetry and includes several studies of two major poems, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman, and essays on some less well-known works, including Havelok the Dane, The Owl and the Nightingale and The Flower and the Leaf. In a field that has been dominated by historical scholarship and conservative new criticism, Medieval English Poetry brings together some of the most controversial work currently being done in Middle English studies; this collection reveals the strength and depth of this research in feminist, Marxist, historicist, reader-response and deconstructionist method. It includes contributions from David Aers, Sheila Delany, Anne Middleton, and Lee Patterson. Stephanie Trigg's illuminating introduction examines some of the patterns that have emerged in the criticism of medieval literature this century, and pays particular attention to our constructions and definitions of the 'medieval'. The range of material covered, together with the detailed headnotes to each of the thirteen essays and the guide to further reading, make this book essential reading for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of Medieval English Literature
Aufsatzsammlung
ix, 299 pages ; 22 cm
9780582082601, 9780582082618, 0582082609, 0582082617
27814138
1. Introduction: Medieval Poetry and Literary Criticism. The critical traditions of medieval poetry. Defining the medieval, and the medievalist. Non-Chaucerian Poetry? Contemporary criticism
2. The Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II / Anne Middleton
3. Imagination and Traditional Ideologies in Piers Plowman / David Aers
4. Truth's Treasure: Allegory and Meaning in Piers Plowman / Laurie A. Finke
5. The Genres of Piers Plowman / Steven Justice
6. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Jill Mann
7. Leaving Morgan Aside: Women, History and Revisionism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Sheila Fisher
8. The Narrator in The Owl and the Nightingale: A Reader in the Text / R. Barton Palmer
9. The Romance of Kingship: Havelok the Dane / Sheila Delany
10. The Rhetoric of Excess in Winner and Waster / Stephanie Trigg
11. English, Latin, and the Text as 'Other': The Page as Sign in the Work of John Gower / Robert F. Yeager. 12. The Romance of History and the Alliterative Morte Arthure / Lee Patterson
13. The Flower and the Leaf and The Assembly of Ladies: Is There a (Sexual) Difference? / Alexandra A.T. Barratt
14. Why was Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight the Most Popular Ballad in Europe? / Stephen Knight