Alliterative revivals /
Alliterative Revivals is the first full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism, feminism, performance studies, and postcolonial theory, Christine Chism argues that these poems animate British history by reviving and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2002.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0585436215 9780585436210 9780812201581 0812201582 0812236556 9780812236552 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Alliterative Romance: Improvising Tradition
- 2. St. Erkenwald and the Body in Question
- 3. Heady Diversions: Court and Province in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- 4. Geography and Genealogy in The Wars of Alexander
- 5. Profiting from Precursors in The Siege of Jerusalem
- 6. King Takes Knight: Signifying War in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
- 7. Grave Misgivings in De Tribus Regibus Mortuis, The Awntyrs off Arthure, and Somer Sunday
- 8. Conclusion: The Body in Question-Again
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments