Alliterative revivals
By: Christine Chism.
Series: The Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.; Alliteration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 Alliterative Romance: Improvising Tradition 14; title: 2 St. Erkenwald and the Body in Question 41; title: 3 Heady Diversions: Court and Province in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 66; title: 4 Geography and Genealogy in The Wars of Alexander inI; title: 5 Profiting from Precursors in The Siege of Jerusalem 155; title: 6 King Takes Knight: Signifying War in the Alliterative Morte Arthure 189; title: 7 Grave Misgivings in De Tribus Regibus Mortuis, The Awntyrs off Arthure, and Somer Sunday 237; title: 8 Conclusion: The Body in Question-Again 265.