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Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry (Hardcover)
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Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
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The characteristic alliterative poem of the 14th and 15th centuries
tells a story of incident and adventure: it is pre-eminently the
poetry of narrative. Yet it is also, more than any other kind of
medieval verse, remarkable for passages of vivid description,
taking advantage of the extraordinary rich verbal resources of the
alliterative poets and the characteristic strengths of the
alliterative line. Memorable examples are the green chapel in Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, the storm at sea in Patience, the
dream-landscape in Pearl, and the mysterious tomb in St Erkenwald;
there are violent battle-scenes, descriptions of hunting and
hawking, beautiful meadows and terrifying mountains, purling
streams and wild rivers. Here is a seeming contradiction, or at
least a tension that needs to be explored. The descriptive passages
are digressions that interrupt the narrative; the story must pause
to take in a visual effect. In Description and Narrative in Middle
English Alliterative Poetry, Thorlac Turville-Petre explores this
relationship between description and narrative, and the
contribution of description to the narrative. Passages from all the
major alliterative poems are analysed, and translated as necessary,
so that the book may meet the needs of students as well as scholars
familiar with the language and the topics discussed.
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