A Book of Middle English

A Book of Middle English
Author: J. A. Burrow
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2013-04-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118697359

This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook. Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional dialects. Now includes extracts from 'Pearl' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'. Bibliographic references have been updated throughout. Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.

An Introduction to Middle English

An Introduction to Middle English
Author: R.D. Fulk
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2012-04-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1551118947

An Introduction to Middle English combines an elementary grammar of the English language from about 1100 to about 1500 with a selection of texts for reading, ranging in date from 1154 to 1500. The grammar includes the fundamentals of orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, regional dialectology, and prosody. In the thirty-eight texts for reading are represented a wide range of Middle English dialects, and the commentary on each text includes, in addition to explanatory notes, extensive linguistic analysis. The book includes many useful figures and illustrations, including images of Middle English manuscripts as an aid to learning to decipher medieval handwriting and maps indicating the geographical extent of dialect features. This introduction to Middle English is based on the latest research, and it provides up-to-date bibliographical guidance to the study of the language.

A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English

A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English
Author: Peter G. Beidler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-05
Genre: LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN: 9781603811026

"A direct, clear, and user-friendly introduction to the sound of Chaucer's language, as well as to aspects of Chaucer's vocabulary and principal metrical form."--Back cover.

Middle English Mouths

Middle English Mouths
Author: Katie L. Walter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108426611

First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.

A Middle English Anthology

A Middle English Anthology
Author: Ann Sullivan Haskell
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 556
Release: 1985
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780814317983

A reissue of the popular 1969 volume, this anthology includes a wide variety of selections from Middle English literature. A reissue of the popular 1969 volume, this anthology covers a wide range of Middle English literature. Selections are numerous enough to allow professors great variation in the readings for individual courses. The supplementary references include comparative media, since literature forms only a part of the whole cultural context. Ann Haskell has not altered the language into a common mold. She has, however, supplied punctuation, capitalization, and accent marks when necessary to aid in comprehension by the inexperienced reader.

Medieval Writers and Their Work

Medieval Writers and Their Work
Author: J. A. Burrow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2008-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199532044

A fully updated second edition of J. A. Burrow's hugely successful introduction to medieval English literature.