A book of Middle English / Thorlac Turville-Petre and J. A. Burrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turville-Petre, Thorlac, author.

Burrow, J. A. (John Anthony), author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Grammar.

English language.

Grammar.

English language--Middle English--Grammar.

English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Readers.

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.

English literature.

English literature--Middle English.

English language--Middle English.

Genre:

Readers (Publications)

Physical Description:

viii, 444 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2021.

Summary:

A Book of Middle English introduces readers to a wide range of English literature from the mid-twelfth century to the end of the fourteenth century. Now in its fourth edition, this classic textbook opens with an introduction to the language of the time, showing how it evolved throughout the period. Each text has a brief headnote, a short reading list and explanatory footnotes, supported by an extensive glossary and bibliography. --

In this accessible introduction to Middle English literature, the authors offer guidance on pronunciation, grammar, dialects, metre and vocabulary, and present key works including The Owl and the Nightingale, Langland's Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a selection of lyrics and the York Play of the Crucifixion. --

The fourth edition has been revised throughout in light of new editions and critical studies, and includes an excerpt from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, as well as a new chapter discussing how to approach a translation from Middle English. --Book Jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introducing Middle English

1.1. The Period

1.1.1. From Old to Middle English

1.1.2. From Middle to Modern English

1.2. Varieties of Middle English

1.2.1. Regional Dialects

1.2.2. Early and Late Middle English

1.2.3. Spelling

2. Pronouncing Middle English

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Vowels

2.2.1. The Long Vowels

2.2.2. The Short Vowels

2.2.3. Unstressed Final -e

2.2.4. The Diphthongs

2.3. Consonants

2.4. Stress

3. Vocabulary

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Scandinavian

3.3. English, French and Latin

3.4. Latin Loan-Words

3.5. French Loan-Words

4. Inflexions

4.1. Introduction

4.1.1. The Inflexional System

4.1.2. Loss of Inflexional Endings

4.2. Nouns

4.2.1. Introduction

4.2.2. Noun Inflexions: Early Southern Texts

4.2.3. Developments in Noun Inflexions

4.2.4. Genitive Singular Without Ending

4.2.5. Unchanged Plurals

4.2.6. Mutated Plurals

4.3. Pronouns and Articles

4.3.1. Forms of the Personal Pronouns

4.3.2. First and Second Person Pronouns

4.3.3. Third Person Pronouns: Masculine and Neuter Singular

4.3.4. Third Person Pronouns: Feminine Singular

4.3.5. Third Person Pronouns: Plural

4.3.6. The Definite Article

4.3.7. Demonstratives

4.3.8. The Indefinite Article

4.4. Adjectives and Adverbs

4.4.1. Definite and Indefinite Inflexions

4.4.2. Inflexions for Case

4.4.3. Comparison of Adjectives

4.4.4. Comparison of Adverbs

4.5. Verbs

4.5.1. Introduction

4.5.2. Present Tense

4.5.3. Past Tense and Past Participle

4.5.4. Past of Weak Verbs

4.5.5. The Verbs 'Have' and 'Say'

4.5.6. Past of Strong Verbs

4.5.7. Irregular Verbs

4.5.8. The Verb 'To Be'

5. Syntax

5.1. Gender

5.2. Number

5.3. Use of Cases

5.3.1. Nominative and Accusative

5.3.2. Genitive

5.3.3. Dative

5.4. Pronouns and Articles

5.4.1. Pou and 3e

5.4.2. Non-expression of Personal Pronouns

5.4.3. Man

5.4.4. Self

5.4.5. Reflexive Pronouns

5.4.6. Relative Pronouns

5.4.7. The Articles

5.5. Adjectives and Adverbs

5.5.1. Position

5.5.2. Comparatives and Superlatives

5.5.3. Adjectives as Nouns

5.6. Verbs

5.6.1. Use of Present Tense

5.6.2. Use of Past Tense

5.6.3. Auxiliaries of the Past

5.6.4. Auxiliaries of the Future: shall and will

5.6.5. The Infinitive

5.6.6. The Subjunctive

5.6.7. The Imperative

5.6.8. Impersonal Verbs

5.6.9. Verbs of Motion

5.6.10. The Passive

5.7. Negation

5.8. Questions

5.9. Word-Order

5.9.1. Inversion

5.9.2. The Object

5.9.3. Prepositions

5.9.4. Relative Clauses

5.9.5. Adverbial Phrases

5.9.6. Verb in Final Position

5.10. Recapitulation and Anticipation

6. Metre

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Rhymed Verse

6.3. Alliterative Verse

6.4. La3amon's Brut

7. From Manuscript to Printed Text

8. Translating Middle English

8.1. Trevisa's Dialogue

8.2. Words and Their Meanings

8.3. Dictionaries

8.4. False Friends

8.4.1. 'lewd'

8.4.2. 'kind'

8.4.3. Some Nouns and Verbs

8.5. Idioms

8.6. Translating Prose

8.7. Translating Verse

8.8. Translating Pearl

9. Select Bibliography

9.1. Bibliographies, Indexes, and Internet Resources

9.2. Language Studies

9.3. General Studies of the Literature

9.4. Studies of Particular Genres

9.5. Historical and Social Studies

Note on Treatment of Texts

1. The Peterborough Chronicle 1137

2. The Owl and the Nightingale

3. La3amon: Brut

4. Ancrene Wisse

5. Sir Orfeo

6. The Cloud of Unknowing

7. William Langland: Piers Plowman

8. Patience

9. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

10. Pearl

11. St Erkenwald

12. John Trevisa: Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk

13. John Gower: Confessio Amantis

14. Lyrics

15. The York Play of the Crucifixion

16. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls

17. Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde

18. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

18a. The Reeve's Tale

18b. The Prioress' Tale

19. Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Burrow, J. A., A book of middle english

ISBN:

9781119619277

1119619270

OCLC:

1157484954