Description: Further DetailsTitle: Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative PoetryCondition: NewEAN: 9781786941435ISBN: 9781786941435Publisher: Liverpool University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/21/2018Description: The characteristic alliterative poem of the 14th and 15th centuries tells a story of incident and adventure: it is pre-eminently the poetry of narrative. Yet it is also, more than any other kind of medieval verse, remarkable for passages of vivid description, taking advantage of the extraordinary rich verbal resources of the alliterative poets and the characteristic strengths of the alliterative line. Memorable examples are the green chapel in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the storm at sea in Patience, the dream-landscape in Pearl, and the mysterious tomb in St Erkenwald; there are violent battle-scenes, descriptions of hunting and hawking, beautiful meadows and terrifying mountains, purling streams and wild rivers. Here is a seeming contradiction, or at least a tension that needs to be explored. The descriptive passages are digressions that interrupt the narrative; the story must pause to take in a visual effect. In Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry, Thorlac Turville-Petre explores this relationship between description and narrative, and the contribution of description to the narrative. Passages from all the major alliterative poems are analysed, and translated as necessary, so that the book may meet the needs of students as well as scholars familiar with the language and the topics discussed.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 239mmItem Length: 163mmAuthor: Thorlac Turville-PetreGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and StudiesRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry
Title: Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry
EAN: 9781786941435
ISBN: 9781786941435
Release Date: 09/21/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Name: Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry
Language: English
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485), Old & Middle English, Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Type: Language Course
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, History
Author: Thorlac Turville-Petre
Item Length: 9.4 in
Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
