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Alliterative Revivals is the first full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism, feminism, performance studies, and postcolonial theory, Christine Chism argues that these poems animate British history by reviving and...

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Autor principal: Chism, Christine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
English poetry > Middle English.
Alliteration.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Poesie anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Alliterative Romance: Improvising Tradition
  • 2. St. Erkenwald and the Body in Question
  • 3. Heady Diversions: Court and Province in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • 4. Geography and Genealogy in The Wars of Alexander
  • 5. Profiting from Precursors in The Siege of Jerusalem
  • 6. King Takes Knight: Signifying War in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
  • 7. Grave Misgivings in De Tribus Regibus Mortuis, The Awntyrs off Arthure, and Somer Sunday
  • 8. Conclusion: The Body in Question-Again
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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