The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature
The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature

Author: Piero Boitani

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-08-25

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0521354765

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Professor Boitani's latest book explores the areas of the tragic and the sublime in medieval literature. Boitani studies tragic and sublime tensions in stories and scenes recounted by such major poets as Dante, Chaucer and Petrarch, as well as themes shared by writers and philosophers and traditional poetic images.

Continuations
Continuations

Author: John L. Grigsby

Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780917786747

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Wigalois
Wigalois

Author: Wernt Von Grafenberg

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1977-04-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780803298279

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The Arthurian verse-novel Wigalois, written by the German knight Wirnt von Grafenberg in the early years of the thirteenth century, tells a story which was well known in the medieval period, appearing in eight versions of four languages. This first English translation makes accessible to a new audience the adventure-filled tale of the hero's knightly education and quest for honor, and his ultimate recognition of Sir Gawain as his long-lost father. The translator's introduction compares Wirnt's work with other treatments of the Wigalois material in France, England, and Italy; discusses the German sources and reception of the novel; and offers a careful literary analysis.

English Literary Criticism
English Literary Criticism

Author: J. W. H. Atkins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1000378799

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In England literary consciousness had its beginning in the middle ages, and this book, originally published in 1943, describes and illustrates the first phases of the growth of a tradition of criticism. It does not confine itself to writers whose interest was in the vernacular, for there was a larger European movement of which English criticism was a part. It embodied much of the ancient teaching, but it shows recurring efforts to arrive at the nature and art of poetry; it provides a key to contemporary literature and is of great help in understanding what really happened at the 16th Century Renaissance.

The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108
The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-12-17

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9004192247

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The late thirteenth-century, monolingual Oxford manuscript, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108, bears singular importance to medieval studies, for it preserves and anthologizes unique versions of several seminal Middle English texts, including South English Legendary, Havelok the Dane, and King Horn and Somer Soneday. While critics have traditionally classified these poems by genre, this book returns them to their manuscript context in a comprehensive examination of this vernacular codex. Considering the manuscript as a “whole book” rather than a miscellany of romances, saints' lives, and religious poems, these inter-connected essays focus on the physical, contextual, and critical intersections of Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108. Codicological evidence foregrounds the manuscript’s investment in a particular vision of an English Christian identity. Contributors are A.S.G. Edwards, Thomas R. Liszka, Murray J. Evans, Andrew Taylor, Diane Speed, Susanna Fein, Robert Mills, Andrew Lynch, Daniel Kline, Christina M. Fitzgerald, and J. Justin Brent.