Anne Rooney Hunting in Middle English Literature (Hardback)
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Further Details Title: Hunting in Middle English Literature Condition: New ISBN-10: 0859913791 EAN: 9780859913799 ISBN: 9780859913799 Publisher: D.S. Brewer Format: Hardback Release Date: 05/06/1993 Description: An analysis of the hunt, its imagery and allusion, in Middle English literature.This book examines for the first time the tradition of hunting imagery and allusion in specifically Middle English literature, and discovers that it differs from the parallel European tradition in its use of certain images.Anne Rooney begins with a review of the Middle English hunting manuals, the texts that taught the art of hunting principally through instruction in the terminology, horn calls and attendant ceremony of the hunt. The second chapter sets the Middle English tradition in its European context, with an account of the inheritance from Classical and medieval French literature. The central part of the book identifies and categorises hunting images in verse and prose romance, other narrative verse, lyric poetry and religious writings of many types. The final two chapters reassess hunting images in two important Middle English texts, The Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Dr ANNE ROONEY teaches medieval English literatureat the University of Cambridge. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 234mm Item Length: 156mm Author: Anne Rooney Genre: Literary Criticism Topic: Society & Culture, Sports & Hobbies Item Weight: 496g Release Year: 1993 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
