Readings in medieval poetry / A.C. Spearing, Professor of English, University of Virginia, and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #464857
ISBN: 0521322685
Physical description; ix, 270 pages ; 22 cm. Contents; Elaborated and restricted codes -- Early medieval narrative style -- Interpreting a medieval romance -- Early Chaucer -- Narrative closure: the end of Troilus and Criseyde -- Alliterative poetry -- Purity and danger -- The Gawain-poet's sense of an ending -- Piers Plowman: allegory and verbal practice. Subjects; English poetry. Middle English, 1100-1500. History and criticism. Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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