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Alliterative revivals / Christine Chism.
LIBRA PR317.A55 C48 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chism, Christine.
- Series:
- Middle Ages series
- The Middle Ages series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Alliteration.
- Physical Description:
- 327 pages ; ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Addressing the ways alliterative poems share concerns with history and the often-dangerous confrontation of the present with the past, Christine Chism shifts her focus away from the emphases on meter, dialect, and provenance that have routinely marked studies of alliterative poetry.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-316) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Given to the Penn Libraries by Margy Ellin Meyerson in memory of her husband, President Emeritus Martin Meyerson.
- ISBN:
- 0812236556
- OCLC:
- 48450001
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