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The Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Reassessment of the Poem

The Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Reassessment of the Poem

Goller, Karl Heinz

Hardcover

Series: Arthurian Studies, Book 2

Art HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 085991075X
ISBN13: 9780859910750
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: May 1 1981
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Essays examining a variety of aspects of important Arthurian poem.

The present volume grew from a nucleus of four papers given at the Twelfth International Arthurian Conference at Regensburg in 1971 on the alliterative Morte Arthure, increasingly recognised as one of the great masterpiecesof medieval English literature. These lectures sought to reappraise the poem and its somewhat enigmatic historical and cultural context, and are presented here in a much revised and expanded form. Unlike most volumes of theiskind, the contributions form an integrated whole, the result of lengthy discussions among the collaborating scholars over the past year. The topics range from the poem's place among chronicles and Arthurian romances to the date, audience and attitude to contempary problems, notably that of war. pecific fields such as heraldry and laments for the dead are examined in detail, while the linguistic structure of the poem is the subject of two essays.

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