Orality and literacy in early Middle English
By: Herbert Pilch, ed.
Contributors: Pilch, Herbert.
Series: ScriptOralia,; 83; Script Oralia ;; 83.
Publisher: G. Narr
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng; enm
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Layamon, fl. 1200.; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.; Arthurian romances -- History and criticism.; Oral tradition -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Literacy -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Oral-formulaic analysis.; Rhetoric, Medieval.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Listening to the manuscript: editing La[y]amon's Brut / Françoise Le Saux; title: Sir Frederic Madden's annotations on La[y]amon's Brut / Elizabeth J. Bryan; title: Counting time and time for recounting: narrative sections in La[y]amon's Brut / Rosamund Allen; title: Lawman's formulaic themes and the characterization of King Arthur in the Brut / Dennis Donahue; title: La[y]amon's heathens and the medieval grapevine / Arthur Wayne Glowka; title: The earliest Arthurian tradition: the Preiddiau Annwfn of the Book of Taliesin / Herbert Pilch; title: Wulf and Eadwacer and the 19th century romantic poems / Ioana I. Petrescu; title: Twin collocations in the early Middle English lives of the Katherine Group / Ursula Schaefer; title: Personification without the distinction of capitalization, mainly in early Middle English / Eric Gerald Stanley; title: Views of Anglo-Saxon England in post-conquest vernacular writing / John Frankis.