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Readings in Medieval Poetry is a linked collection of essays on such poems as the Song of Roland, King Horn, Havelok, Sir Orfeo, Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, House of Fame and Troilus and Criseyde, the alliterative Morte Arthure, The Siege of Jerusalem, Purity, Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. The connecting purpose is to open up a variety of kinds of medieval poetry to modern readers; and, while the methods used vary with the kinds of poetry being discussed, they frequently involve, along with historical treatments in terms of medieval practices and systems of ideas, the adoption and adaptation of theoretical frameworks borrowed from outside the medieval field.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Readings in Medieval Poetry
• Author: A. C. Spearing
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• EAN: 9780521311335
• ISBN: 0521311330
• ID: 02027337
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 382 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 139 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. May 1989

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