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Language and Piety in Middle English Romance Hardcover - 2000
by Roger Dalrymple
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- Title Language and Piety in Middle English Romance
- Author Roger Dalrymple
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st edition.
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge,
- Date 2000
- ISBN 9780859915984 / 0859915980
- Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.25 x 1.07 in (23.50 x 15.88 x 2.72 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects English literature - Middle English,, Christian literature, English (Middle) -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00031255
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.003
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-D S Brewer, 2000-. First edition. x+270 pages with index. Cloth. Fine. No dustjacket required for this edition. Middle English romances exhibit a distinctive piety, and yet were maligned by medieval moralists. Dalrymple seeks an answer to this apparent contradiction by drawing attention to the genre's myriad invocations of God and Christ, its pious formulae. Criticism to date has tended to view prayers and vows to 'him that bore the crown of thorns' or to 'him that bought us with his blood' as stock line-fillers drawn upon for metrical ease. Yet, based upon a catalogue of the formulae, the book argues that in romances such as the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Guy of Warwick they encode a rich and resonant fund of devotional imagery which when harnessed to aesthetic use provoke a strong affective charge, conflating piety and blasphemy. In analysing the changing functions of pious formulae across a range of romances, the author aims to illuminate their neglected stylistic role, and to broaden…
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