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Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England
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Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England
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Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England
Current price: $28.00
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After delving into the background of the medieval oral-literate matrix,
develops a model of non-performative oral poetics that is a central, perhaps defining, component of Old English vernacular verse. Following the Norman Conquest, oral poetics lost its central position and became one of many ways to articulate poetry. Contrary to many scholars, Amodio argues that oral poetics did not disappear but survived well into the post-Conquest period. It influenced the composition of Middle English verse texts produced from the twelfth to the fourteenth century because it offered poets an affectively powerful and economical way to articulate traditional meanings. Indeed, fragments of oral poetics are discoverable in contemporary prose, poetics, and film as they continue to faithfully emit their traditional meanings.
will appeal to specialists and students interested in medieval literature, medieval cultural studies, and oral theory.