IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 814: The Verse Forms of Middle English Narratives
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Arts & Humanities Research Council |
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| Organiser: | Ad Putter, Department of English, University of Bristol |
| Moderator/Chair: | Oliver Pickering, School of English, University of Leeds |
| Paper 814-a | Informing Poetics: Rhyme Royal and Gender in Chaucer's The Prioress's Tale and The Second Nun's Tale (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Rhetoric |
| Paper 814-b | The Tristrem Stanza: Its History and Associations (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 814-c | Rhyme in Four Metrical Romances: The ABAB Pattern (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | The purpose of this session is to devote much-needed attention to the formal qualities of Middle English poetry. The questions that drive all three papers in this session are: why did poets choose to write in particular stanza forms; what meanings did these verse forms embody for readers and audiences; and where did these forms come from and develop? Papers will focus on a range of Middle English narrative poems, including Chaucer and popular romance. The session is sponsored by an Arts and Humanities Research Council project grant awarded to Ad Putter to investigate the verse forms of medieval romance. |