1st Edition
Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer Selected Studies of Larry Benson
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume brings together a series of key essays by Larry D Benson, well-known for his work in editing the Riverside Chaucer. Of the studies selected, the opening three deal with Old English, recasting the possibilities for the critical study of Beowulf, above all the relation between oral and written literary production. The following ten essays turn to Middle English literature, with the focus... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Bibliography of Larry D Benson; The literary character of Anglo-Saxon formulaic poetry; The pagan colouring of Beowulf; The orginality of Beowulf; Chaucer's spelling reconsidered; The order of the Canterbury Tales; The authorship of St Erkenwald; The date of the Alliterative Morte Arthure; The occasion of The Parliament of Fowls; The "Love-Tydynges" in Chaucer's House of Fame; The 'queynte' punnings of Chaucer's critics; The beginnings of Chaucer's English style; The tournament in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes and L’Histoire de Guillaume Le Maréchal; Courtly love and chivalry in the late Middle Ages; Tabula gratulatoria; Index.
Biography
Theodore M. Andersson
