Middle English Debate Poetry and the Aesthetics of Irresolution
- Author / Editor
- Reed, Thomas L.,Jr.
Middle English Debate Poetry and the Aesthetics of Irresolution
- Published
- Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1990.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 461 pp.
- Description
- A prominent feature of Middle English debate poetry from 1200 to 1450 is irresolution, a quality appreciated in the context of carnival laughter (Bakhtin). Reed rejects univocal interpretation through allegory or symbolism in favor of "experiential realism." Includes bibliography.
- See also Reed's "The 'Parlement of Foules'."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.