Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Amodio, Mark C., ed.
Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry
- Published
- New York and London: Garland, 1994.
- Physical Description
- xii, 289 pp.
- Series
- Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition, no. 13.
- Description
- Eleven essays by different hands define and explore the complex relationship between the emerging Middle English literate tradition and its receding oral ancestor in the centuries following the Norman Conquest. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry under Alternative Title.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.