Between high culture and low culture, between oral traditions and written storytelling, between performance and manuscript, there lies not a clean boundary but a dynamic, productive region of mutual influence. Focusing on works composed at the crossroads of oral tradition and canonical literature, Nancy Mason Bradbury overturns a widespread critical view that oral transmission violates the integrity of written texts. Most medieval English romances either reflect or imitate the conditions of oral performance, and Bradbury ...
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Between high culture and low culture, between oral traditions and written storytelling, between performance and manuscript, there lies not a clean boundary but a dynamic, productive region of mutual influence. Focusing on works composed at the crossroads of oral tradition and canonical literature, Nancy Mason Bradbury overturns a widespread critical view that oral transmission violates the integrity of written texts. Most medieval English romances either reflect or imitate the conditions of oral performance, and Bradbury skillfully demonstrates the importance of performance to their narrative art.
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Add this copy of Writing Aloud: Storytelling in Late Medieval England to cart. $27.00, good condition, Sold by Leaf and Stone Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 1998 by Univ of Illinois Pr.
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Good in Good dust jacket. 0252024036. xi + 247 pp. Index, works cited, notes. In English with some Middle English. Marbled beige dust jacket with lavender medieval illuminated manuscript, dj has a few crinkles and edge bends, book itself is clean and unmarked. Includes: Introduction Orality, Literacy and Middle English Romance; The Tale of Gamelyn as a Greenwood Outlaw Talking; Havelok the Dane Telling into Writing; The Seege of Troye Telling and Retelling; Faire Ben Tales in Compaignye The Dual Art of Kyng Alisaunder; Chaucerian Minstrelsy Troilus and Criseyde.; 8vo-over 7"-9" tall.
Add this copy of Writing Aloud: Storytelling in Late Medieval England to cart. $47.27, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Univ Of Illinois Pr.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 0252024036.
