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A Book of Middle English - J. A. Burrow,  Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre

A Book of Middle English

Buch | Softcover
392 Seiten
1995 | 2nd Revised edition
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-631-19353-1 (ISBN)
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This revised edition takes account of suggestions and comments from reviewers and from those who have used the book all over the world. The new texts are all by Chaucer: "The Parliament of Fools", "The Reeve's Tale" and "The Prioress's Tale", all of which are printed complete.
This revised edition takes account of suggestions and comments from reviewers and from those who have used the first edition all over the world. The main features of the second edition are the inclusion of etymologies in the glossary and the edition of three complete texts by Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls, The Reeve's Tale and The Prioress's Tale. Part One has been revised to cover English at the time of Chaucer, and suggestions for further reading have been updated throughout the book.

J. A. Burrow is Winterstoke Professor of English at the University of Bristol. Thorlac Turville-Petre is Professor of Medievial English Studies at the University of Nottingham.

List of Illustrations. Preface to the Second Edition. Abbreviations. Part I: 1. Introducing Middle English. 2. Pronouncing Middle English. 3. Vocabulary. 4. Inflexions. 5. Syntax. 6. Metre. 7. From Manuscript to Printed Text. 8. Select Bibliography. Part II: Note on Treatment of Texts: 1. The Peterborough Chronicle. 2. The Owl and the Nightingale. 3. Layamon's Brut. 4. Ancrene Wisse. 5. Sir Orfeo. 6. The Cloud of Unknowing. 7. William Langland: Piers Plowman. 8. Patience. 9. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 10. St Erkenwald. 11. John Trevisa: Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk. 12. John Gower: Confession Amantis. 13. Lyrics. 14. The York Play of the Crucifixion. 15. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls. 16. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. 17. Textual Notes. 18. Glossary. 19. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.12.1995
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 653 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-631-19353-7 / 0631193537
ISBN-13 978-0-631-19353-1 / 9780631193531
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