"This is a splendid, rewarding book destined to reshape critical
thinking about medieval poetry in English. Amodio combines
groundbreaking theory with a deep, wide-ranging command of relevant
scholarship to offer a uniquely inclusive perspective on an
enormous and disparate collection of Old and Middle English
poetry." -John Miles Foley, University of Missouri, Columbia "This
is a well-conceived, well-structured, and well-written book that
fills a significant gap in current scholarly discourse. Amodio is
extremely well-informed about current oral theory, and presents a
beautifully integrated thesis. This clear-sighted and provocative
book both promises and delivers much." -Andy Orchard, University of
Toronto Mark Amodio's book focuses on the influence of the oral
tradition on written vernacular verse produced in England from the
fifth to the fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how a
living tradition articulated only through the public, performance
voices of pre-literate singers came to find expression through the
pens of private, literate authors. Amodio argues that the
expressive economy of oral poetics survives in written texts
because, throughout the Middle Ages, literacy and orality were
interdependent, not competing, cultural forces. After delving into
the background of the medieval oral-literate matrix, Writing the
Oral Tradition develops a model of non-performative oral poetics
that is a central, perhaps defining, component of Old English
vernacular verse. Following the Norman Conquest, oral poetics lost
its central position and became one of many ways to articulate
poetry. Contrary to many scholars, Amodio argues that oral poetics
did not disappear but survived well into the post-Conquest period.
It influenced the composition of Middle English verse texts
produced from the twelfth to the fourteenth century because it
offered poets an affectively powerful and economical way to
articulate traditional meanings. Indeed, fragments of oral poetics
are discoverable in contemporary prose, poetics, and film as they
continue to faithfully emit their traditional meanings.
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