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Christine Chism - Alliterative Revivals - 9780812236552 - V9780812236552
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Alliterative Revivals

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Description for Alliterative Revivals Hardback. 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. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 356 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 659.

Alliterative Revivals is the first full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism, feminism, performance studies, and postcolonial theory, Christine Chism argues that these poems animate British history by reviving and acknowledging potentially threatening figures from the medieval past—pagan judges, primeval giants, Greek knights, Jewish forefathers, Egyptian sorcerers, and dead ancestors. In addressing the ways alliterative poems centralize history—the dangerous but profitable commerce of the present with the past—Chism's book shifts the emphasis from the philological questions that have preoccupied studies of alliterative romance and offers a new argument about the uses of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812236552
SKU
V9780812236552
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About Christine Chism
Christine Chism teaches English at Rutgers University.

Reviews for Alliterative Revivals
"A learned and witty book. . . . Alliterative Revivals is an important effort to bring to the study of these poems the concerns and methods which have transformed literary study in other periods and genres. The book shows courage and resourcefulness working around the gaps in our knowledge of the poems' origins and contexts. Its successes will no doubt ... Read more

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