English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth CenturiesCambridge University Press, 31.07.1986 - 324 Seiten This is a wide-ranging and detailed study of English narrative verse in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Piero Boitani describes and analyses the undisputed masterpieces of narrative (such as the works of the Gawain poet, Langland, Gower and Chaucer), as well as the anonymous romances and specimens of religious and comic narrative which form the background to the better-known poems. The book is divided by literary genres or structural systems: chapters on the religious, comic and romance traditions are followed by a discussion of dream and visionary narratives and a chapter on story collections including those of Gower. The rest of the book is devoted to Chaucer, who mastered all these types. |
Inhalt
The Religious Tradition | 1 |
The Comic Tradition | 28 |
The World of Romance | 36 |
Dream and Vision | 71 |
The Narrative Collections and Gower | 114 |
Chaucer | 133 |
1 The dream poem | 138 |
2 The romance | 193 |
3 The narrative collection | 227 |
Notes | 273 |
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English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Piero Boitani Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1982 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alceste allegorical ambiguity Arthur audience beginning Boccaccio Book Brewer Canterbury Canterbury Tales characters Chauntecleer classical Confessio courtly Criseyde's culture Dante death dimension Dobet and Dobest Dowel dream poems Duchess Eagle earthly elements episode example exemplum fact Filostrato finally fourteenth century French genre Geoffrey Chaucer Gower Handlyng Synne Havelok House of Fame human J. A. W. Bennett John Gower King Knight Knight's Tale kynde lady Langland language Legend lines literary London lovers lyrical medieval Middle English moral narrative Narrator nature Nun's Priest's Tale Oxford Pandarus parable Paradise Parliament Parliament of Fowls Pearl Piers Plowman pilgrims poet poetic poetry precisely problem Prologue protagonist quod reader reality Reneuard romance says scene shal Sir Gawain Somnium stanzas story structure Teseida theme tradition Troilus and Criseyde Troilus's tydynges Venus vision whan whole wolde words þat þer