Readings in medieval texts : interpreting old and Middle English literature /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
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| Description: | ix, 400 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5641551 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1. The context of medieval literature
- 2. Old English religious poetry
- 3. The Old English elegy: a historicization
- 4. 'Tell me what I am': the Old English riddles
- 5. Warring with words: Cynewulf's Juliana
- 6. Old English heroic literature
- 7. Beowulf: monuments, memory, history
- 8. History and memory in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- 9. The persuasive power of Alfredian prose
- 10. Old English religious prose: rhetorics of salvation and damnation
- 11. Centralizing feminism in Anglo-Saxon Literary Studies: Elene, motherhood, and history
- 12. Wise words: Old English sapiential poetry
- 13. Middle English didactic literature
- 14. Middle English writings for women: Ancrene Wisse
- 15. The Middle English Brut chronicles
- 16. Earlier verse romance
- 17. Middle English debate literature
- 18. Religious writing by women
- 19. The Gawain-poet
- 20. Middle English prologues
- 21. The Middle English lyrics
- 22. Medieval dream visions: Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
- 23. Late romance: Malory and the Tale of Balin
- 24. Scottish literature
- 25. Medieval drama: the Corpus Christi in York and Croxton
- Index
