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Cambridge University Press Gestures Looks Medieval Narrative 48 Cambridge
Book SynopsisIn medieval society, gestures and speaking looks played an even more important part in public and private exchanges than they do today. In this, the first study of its kind in English, John Burrow examines the role of non-verbal communication in a range of narrative texts.Trade Review'… this fascinating book … the author's intellectual flexibility and lightness of touch make this book a pleasure to read …' The Times Literary Supplement'… a fascinating study of non-verbal communication elements in both well-known and lesser-known medieval texts. It is the first general study of its kind in English … I found the writing to be quite readable, so that a non-scholar with an interest in either the texts or the topic would find the style accessible. I can easily see providing excerpts or even a whole chapter of this book to students in an undergraduate literature class, or the whole book to students in a graduate medieval literature course … Burrow supplies useful, contextual information about the passages he includes as examples, as well as relevant historical and social background for each of the elements of non-verbal communication he explores in the texts … medievalists will find Burrow's interpretations sound, viable, and highly relevant. I found Burrow's interpretations of scenes that I have read, studied, and taught for years enlightening … accessible writing style …a valuable addition to medieval studies which points the way to further research in this much needed area of analysis.' CerclesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Gestures; 3. Looks; 4. Two Middle English narratives; 5. Dante's Commedia; 6. Afterword; Bibliography; Index of names and titles; Index of signs.
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Liverpool University Press The Gawain Poet
Book SynopsisThis book treats separately all four poems: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain. There are also chapters on: the history of the poems and their rediscovery; The main emphasis falls on interpretation, and on such explanations as a modern reader may require. All quotations cited from the poems are translated as well.
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John Wiley & Sons Thomas Hoccleves Complaint and Dialogue
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Cambridge University Press Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative 48 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 48
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Cambridge University Press The Poetry of Praise 69 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 69
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Cambridge University Press The Poetry of Praise 69 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 69
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Oxford University Press Medieval Writers and their Work
Book SynopsisIn an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J. A. Burrow takes account of scholarly developments in the the field, most notably devoting a final chapter to the impact of historicism on medieval studies. Full of information and stimulating ideas, and a pleasure to read, Burrow''s book deals with circumstances of composition and reception, the main genres, ''modes of meaning'' (allegory etc.), and medieval literature''s afterlife in modern times. It shows that the literature of authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland is more readily accessible than usually imagined, and well worth reading too. By placing medieval writers in their historical context - the four centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance - Professor Burrow explains not only how they wrote, but why.Trade ReviewThis book is the most effective introduction to Middle English literature that I know. It is everywhere alert to the ways that modern literary sensibilities need to be adjusted in order to appreciate the medieval norm, and Burrow combines astonishing learning with a pedagogical shrewdness that always picks out just the telling passage or focusing cultural fact. This second edition adds a great deal of new and equally important material to a work that had already become a classic in its own right. * Christopher Cannon, Girton College, Cambridge *Table of Contents1. The period and the literature ; 2. Writers, audiences, and readers ; 3. Major genres ; 4. Modes of meaning ; 5. The afterlife of Middle English literature ; Notes ; Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Book of Middle English
Book SynopsisThis essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook. Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional dialects. Now includes extracts from ''Pearl'' and Chaucer''s ''Troilus and Criseyde''. Bibliographic references have been updated throughout. Each text is accompanied by detailed notes. Trade Review"Classroom experience with this authoritative and accessible introduction to Middle English confirms that this is now our best available vademecum to the subject. The appearance of a third edition of Burrow and Turville-Petre's Book of Middle English is good news to teachers and students of Middle English." Fred Robinson, Yale University "Currently the most lucid and illuminating introduction to the language of Middle English, with an excellent selection of literary texts chosen and annotated to suggest the interest, sophistication, and variety of Middle English writing from the Peterborough Chronicle through the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries." Andrew Galloway, Cornell University Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface to the Third Edition xi Abbreviations xii Part one 1 Introducing Middle English 3 1.1 The Period 3 1.1.1 From Old to Middle English 3 1.1.2 From Middle to Modern English 4 1.2 Varieties of Middle English 5 1.2.1 Regional Dialects 5 1.2.2 Early and Late Middle English 8 1.2.3 Spelling 8 2 Pronouncing Middle English 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Vowels 10 2.2.1 The Long Vowels 10 2.2.2 The Short Vowels 11 2.2.3 Unstressed Final -e 11 2.2.4 The Diphthongs 12 2.3 Consonants 12 2.4 Stress 13 3 Vocabulary 14 3.1 Introduction 14 3.2 Scandinavian 14 3.3 English, French and Latin 15 3.4 Latin Loan-Words 17 3.5 French Loan-Words 18 4 Inflexions 19 4.1 Introduction 19 4.1.1 The Inflexional System 19 4.1.2 Loss of Inflexional Endings 19 4.2 Nouns 20 4.2.1 Introduction 20 4.2.2 Noun Inflexions: Early Southern Texts 21 4.2.3 Developments in Noun Inflexions 22 4.2.4 Genitive Singular Without Ending 23 4.2.5 Unchanged Plurals 23 4.2.6 Mutated Plurals 23 4.3 Pronouns and Articles 24 4.3.1 Forms of the Personal Pronouns 24 4.3.2 First and Second Person Pronouns 24 4.3.3 Third Person Pronouns: Masculine and Neuter Singular 25 4.3.4 Third Person Pronouns: Feminine Singular 25 4.3.5 Third Person Pronouns: Plural 26 4.3.6 The Definite Article 26 4.3.7 Demonstratives 27 4.3.8 The Indefinite Article 27 4.4 Adjectives and Adverbs 27 4.4.1 Definite and Indefinite Inflexions 27 4.4.2 Inflexions for Case 28 4.4.3 Comparison of Adjectives 29 4.4.4 Comparison of Adverbs 29 4.5 Verbs 30 4.5.1 Introduction 30 4.5.2 Present Tense 30 4.5.3 Past Tense and Past Participle 32 4.5.4 Past of Weak Verbs 324.5.5 The Verbs ‘Have’ and ‘Say’ 33 4.5.6 Past of Strong Verbs 34 4.5.7 Irregular Verbs 35 4.5.8 The Verb ‘To Be’ 36 5 Syntax 38 5.1 Gender 38 5.2 Number 38 5.3 Use of Cases 39 5.3.1 Nominative and Accusative 39 5.3.2 Genitive 39 5.3.3 Dative 40 5.4 Pronouns and Articles 41 5.4.1 Jou and 4e 41 5.4.2 Non-expression of Personal Pronouns 41 5.4.3 Man 42 5.4.4 Self 42 5.4.5 Reflexive Pronouns 42 5.4.6 Relative Pronouns 43 5.4.7 The Articles 44 5.5 Adjectives and Adverbs 44 5.5.1 Position 44 5.5.2 Comparatives and Superlatives 44 5.5.3 Adjectives as Nouns 45 5.6 Verbs 45 5.6.1 Use of Present Tense 45 5.6.2 Use of Past Tense 45 5.6.3 Auxiliaries of the Past 46 5.6.4 Auxiliaries of the Future: shall and will 46 5.6.5 The Infinitive 47 5.6.6 The Subjunctive 48 5.6.7 The Imperative 50 5.6.8 Impersonal Verbs 50 5.6.9 Verbs of Motion 51 5.6.10 The Passive 51 5.7 Negation 52 5.8 Questions 52 5.9 Word-Order 53 5.9.1 Inversion 53 5.9.2 The Object 54 5.9.3 Prepositions 54 5.9.4 Relative Clauses 54 5.9.5 Adverbial Phrases 54 5.9.6 Verb in Final Position 55 5.10 Recapitulation and Anticipation 55 6 Metre 56 6.1 Introduction 56 6.2 Rhymed Verse 56 6.3 Alliterative Verse 59 6.4 La3amon’s Brut 61 7 From Manuscript to Printed Text 62 8 Select Bibliography 65 8.1 Bibliographies and Indexes 65 8.2 Language Studies 65 8.3 General Studies of the Literature 67 8.4 Studies of Particular Genres 69 8.5 Historical and Social Studies 70 Part two: prose and verse texts Note on Treatment of Texts 74 1 The Peterborough Chronicle 1137 75 2 The Owl and the Nightingale 81 3 La3amon: Brut 96 4 Ancrene Wisse 106 5 Sir Orfeo 112 6 The Cloud of Unknowing 132 7 William Langland: Piers Plowman 141 8 Patience 162 9 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 182 10 Pearl 202 11 St Erkenwald 221 12 John Trevisa: Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk 235 13 John Gower: Confessio Amantis 243 14 Lyrics 255 15 The York Play of the Crucifixion 272 16 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls 283 17 Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde 309 18 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales 327 18a The Reeve’s Tale 328 18b The Prioress’s Tale 346 Textual Notes 356 Glossary 363
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 5 Routledge Library Editions The Medieval World
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Taylor & Francis A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Authors of the Middle Ages Volume I Nos 14 English Writers of the Late Middle Ages
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Book of Middle English
Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of this essential Middle English textbook introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. Beginning with an extensive overview of middle English history, grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, the book goes on to examine key middle English texts including a new extract from Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Divine Love with helpful notes to direct students to key points within the text. Keeping in mind adopter feedback, this new edition includes a new model translation section with a student workbook and model exercise for classroom use. This new chapter will include sections on 'false friend' words, untranslatable idioms and notes on translating both poetry and prose. The text and references will be fully updated throughout and a foreword dedicated to the late J. A. Burrow will be included.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface to the Fourth Edition xi Abbreviations xiii Part One 1 Introducing Middle English 3 1.1 The Period 3 1.1.1 From Old to Middle English 3 1.1.2 From Middle to Modern English 4 1.2 Varieties of Middle English 5 1.2.1 Regional Dialects 5 1.2.2 Early and Late Middle English 8 1.2.3 Spelling 8 2 Pronouncing Middle English 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Vowels 10 2.2.1 The Long Vowels 10 2.2.2 The Short Vowels 11 2.2.3 Unstressed Final -e 11 2.2.4 The Diphthongs 12 2.3 Consonants 12 2.4 Stress 13 3 Vocabulary 14 3.1 Introduction 14 3.2 Scandinavian 14 3.3 English, French and Latin 15 3.4 Latin Loan-Words 17 3.5 French Loan-Words 18 4 Inflexions 19 4.1 Introduction 19 4.1.1 The Inflexional System 19 4.1.2 Loss of Inflexional Endings 19 4.2 Nouns 20 4.2.1 Introduction 20 4.2.2 Noun Inflexions: Early Southern Texts 21 4.2.3 Developments in Noun Inflexions 22 4.2.4 Genitive Singular Without Ending 23 4.2.5 Unchanged Plurals 23 4.2.6 Mutated Plurals 23 4.3 Pronouns and Articles 24 4.3.1 Forms of the Personal Pronouns 24 4.3.2 First and Second Person Pronouns 25 4.3.3 Third Person Pronouns: Masculine and Neuter Singular 25 4.3.4 Third Person Pronouns: Feminine Singular 25 4.3.5 Third Person Pronouns: Plural 26 4.3.6 The Definite Article 26 4.3.7 Demonstratives 27 4.3.8 The Indefinite Article 27 4.4 Adjectives and Adverbs 27 4.4.1 Definite and Indefinite Inflexions 27 4.4.2 Inflexions for Case 28 4.4.3 Comparison of Adjectives 29 4.4.4 Comparison of Adverbs 29 4.5 Verbs 30 4.5.1 Introduction 30 4.5.2 Present Tense 30 4.5.3 Past Tense and Past Participle 32 4.5.4 Past of Weak Verbs 32 4.5.5 The Verbs ‘Have’ and ‘Say’ 33 4.5.6 Past of Strong Verbs 34 4.5.7 Irregular Verbs 35 4.5.8 The Verb ‘To Be’ 36 5 Syntax 38 5.1 Gender 38 5.2 Number 38 5.3 Use of Cases 39 5.3.1 Nominative and Accusative 39 5.3.2 Genitive 39 5.3.3 Dative 40 5.4 Pronouns and Articles 41 5.4.1 Þou and ʒ e 41 5.4.2 Non-expression of Personal Pronouns 41 5.4.3 Man 42 5.4.4 Self 42 5.4.5 Reflexive Pronouns 43 5.4.6 Relative Pronouns 43 5.4.7 The Articles 44 5.5 Adjectives and Adverbs 44 5.5.1 Position 44 5.5.2 Comparatives and Superlatives 44 5.5.3 Adjectives as Nouns 45 5.6 Verbs 45 5.6.1 Use of Present Tense 45 5.6.2 Use of Past Tense 46 5.6.3 Auxiliaries of the Past 46 5.6.4 Auxiliaries of the Future: shall and will 47 5.6.5 The Infinitive 47 5.6.6 The Subjunctive 48 5.6.7 The Imperative 50 5.6.8 Impersonal Verbs 50 5.6.9 Verbs of Motion 51 5.6.10 The Passive 51 5.7 Negation 52 5.8 Questions 52 5.9 Word-Order 53 5.9.1 Inversion 53 5.9.2 The Object 54 5.9.3 Prepositions 54 5.9.4 Relative Clauses 54 5.9.5 Adverbial Phrases 54 5.9.6 Verb in Final Position 55 5.10 Recapitulation and Anticipation 55 6 Metre 56 6.1 Introduction 56 6.2 Rhymed Verse 56 6.3 Alliterative Verse 59 6.4 Laʒamon’s Brut 61 7 From Manuscript to Printed Text 62 8 Translating Middle English 65 8.1 Trevisa’s Dialogue 65 8.2 Words and Their Meanings 66 8.3 Dictionaries 67 8.4 False Friends 68 8.4.1 ‘lewd’ 68 8.4.2 ‘kind’ 70 8.4.3 Some Nouns and Verbs 71 8.5 Idioms 71 8.6 Translating Prose 71 8.7 Translating Verse 73 8.8 Translating Pearl 74 9 Select Bibliography 77 9.1 Bibliographies, Indexes, and Internet Resources 77 9.2 Language Studies 78 9.3 General Studies of the Literature 79 9.4 Studies of Particular Genres 81 9.5 Historical and Social Studies 82 Part Two: Prose and Verse Texts Note on Treatment of Texts 86 1 The Peterborough Chronicle 1137 87 2 The Owl and the Nightingale 93 3 Laʒamon: Brut 108 4 Ancrene Wisse 118 5 Sir Orfeo 124 6 The Cloud of Unknowing 144 7 William Langland: Piers Plowman 153 8 Patience 174 9 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 194 10 Pearl 214 11 St Erkenwald 233 12 John Trevisa: Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk 247 13 John Gower: Confessio Amantis 255 14 Lyrics 267 15 The York Play of the Crucifixion 284 16 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls 295 17 Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde 321 18 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales 339 18a The Reeve’s Tale 340 18b The Prioress’s Tale 358 19 Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love 368 Textual Notes 375 Glossary 382
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