Die mittelenglische Totenklage: Realitatsbezug, abendandische Tradition und individuelle Gestaltung
- Author / Editor
- Haas, Renate.
Die mittelenglische Totenklage: Realitatsbezug, abendandische Tradition und individuelle Gestaltung
- Published
- Frankfurt: Lang, 1980.
- Series
- Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 16.
- Description
- The lament for the dead is a literary form that critics have found difficult to appreciate, even in Chaucer. The book sketches the sociocultural background in medieval England in connection with older traditions, native, biblical, Greco-Roman, medieval Latin, and French, thus providing a context for Chaucer's laments for the dead (Pity, BD, LGW, PhyT, ManT, NPT) and his influence in this genre on Skelton, Spenser, and Dryden.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.