Laʒamon's Brut between Old English heroic poetry and Middle English romance : a study of the lexical fields 'Hero', 'Warrior' and 'Knight'

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Laʒamon's Brut between Old English heroic poetry and Middle English romance : a study of the lexical fields 'Hero', 'Warrior' and 'Knight'

Christine Elsweiler

(Münchener Universitätsschriften : Texte und Untersuchungen zur englischen Philologie, Bd. 35)

Peter Lang, c2011

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Layamon's Brut between Old English heroic poetry and Middle English romance : a study of the lexical fields Hero, Warrior and Knight

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The two manuscripts of the early Middle English chronicle La amon's Brut, British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ix and British Library MS Cotton Otho C xiii, display marked differences in their use of vocabulary. Whereas the vocabulary of the Caligula manuscript is consciously archaising, the lexicon of the Otho text is more modern. This study of the lexical fields 'hero', 'warrior' and 'knight' in the Brut chronicle investigates both the backward orientation of the Caligula Brut towards Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry and the supposed orientation of the Otho Brut towards the newly emerging genre of the Middle English romance. The results highlight the creative use of Old English models in both manuscripts and disprove the hypothesised close link between the Otho Brut and the romance genre.

目次

Contents: Looking backward - La amon's Brut and the Old English heroic tradition - Poetic vocabulary - Use of nominal compounds - Alliterative clusters in the Brut and the Otho scribe's divergent poetic understanding - Looking forward - the Brut and Middle English romance - Cultural transfer in the Brut and the Middle English romances.

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB0648645X
  • ISBN
    • 9783631596692
  • 出版国コード
    gw
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Frankfurt am Main
  • ページ数/冊数
    xix, 470 p.
  • 大きさ
    22 cm
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