Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances

by Susan Wittig

Book Overview

This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical matrix of similar themes and characters. As single narratives, they are thought of as random collections of events loosely structured in chronological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029276653X
• ISBN13: 9780292766532
• Release Date: November 1977
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"