UID:
almafu_9958352331602883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780812201581
Series Statement:
The Middle Ages Series
Content:
Addressing the ways alliterative poems share concerns with history and the often-dangerous confrontation of the present with the past, Christine Chism shifts her focus away from the emphases on meter, dialect, and provenance that have routinely marked studies of alliterative poetry.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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1. Alliterative Romance: Improvising Tradition --
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2. St. Erkenwald and the Body in Question --
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3. Heady Diversions: Court and Province in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight --
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4. Geography and Genealogy in The Wars of Alexander --
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5. Profiting from Precursors in The Siege of Jerusalem --
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6. King Takes Knight: Signifying War in the Alliterative Morte Arthure --
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7. Grave Misgivings in De Tribus Regibus Mortuis, The Awntyrs off Arthure, and Somer Sunday --
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8. Conclusion: The Body in Question-Again --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812201581
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201581
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201581
