Writing The Oral Tradition
Subtitle: Oral Poetics And Literate Culture In Medieval England (Poetics of Orality and Literacy)
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780268020248
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Medieval; England; English poetry; History; History and criticism; Middle English, 1100-1500; Oral communication; To 1500; Written communication
First sentence: The nature of the medieval English oral tradition and its relationship to the literate tradition that comes to supplant it during the period are complex and vexed issues that have been discussed and debated-often quite heatedly-for more than fifty years.