Title: Writing aloud
First published: 1998
Description: In this study, Nancy Bradbury presents a spectrum of medieval English romances that extends from the fragmentary remains of a predominantly oral tradition to a writerly work that proclaims its own place in the European tradition of canonical poetry. By focusing on works composed at the interface of oral and literary tradition, Bradbury tracks the movement of folkloric patterns from the shared culture of oral storytelling to the realm of elite literature.
Subjects: English Romances, English literature, History, History and criticism, Medieval Rhetoric, Narration (Rhetoric), Oral tradition, Rhetoric, Medieval, Romances, English, Storytelling, English literature, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, Romances, history and criticism
Places: England
Time periods: Middle English, 1100-1500, To 1500
LC classification: PR275.O72 B73 1998