Anglicising Romance: Tail-Rhyme and Genre in Medieval English Literature

(Part of the Studies in Medieval Romance Series)

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A reappraisal of the tail-rhyme form so strongly associated with medieval English romance, and how it became so appropriated.

Tail-rhyme romance unites a French genre with a continental stanza form, so why was it developed only in Middle English literature? For English audiences, tail-rhyme becomes inextricably linked with the romance genre in a way thatno other verse form does. The first examples are recorded near the beginning of the fourteenth...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1843841622

ISBN13:9781843841623

Release Date:September 2008

Publisher:Boydell & Brewer

Length:284 Pages

Weight:1.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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Anglicising Romance: Tail-Rhyme and Genre in Medieval English Literature

(Part of the Studies in Medieval Romance Series)

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