Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry (Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World)

ISBN 10: 0367185652 / ISBN 13: 9780367185657

Published by Routledge, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry (Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367185652
• ISBN 13: 9780367185657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Originally published in 1994, Oral Tradition in Middle English is an edited collection providing a multidisciplinary look at the importance and nature of oral tradition in Middle English literature. The book offers a discussion of the gradual problemization of orality and literacy in works of verbal art from this period. It shows how early typographies proved too exclusive to explain the heterogeneity of relevant texts, bringing to bear the new and potentially productive concepts of "vocality" and developing literacy. This book establishes a new interpretive paradigm for Middle English poetry.

About the Author

Mark C. Amodio