Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England

Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England
ISBN-10
0812248791
ISBN-13
9780812248791
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2017-01-13
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Author
Ingrid Nelson

Description

In Lyric Tactics, Ingrid Nelson argues that the lyric poetry of later medieval England is a distinct genre defined not by its poetic features—rhyme, meter, and stanza forms—but by its modes of writing and performance, which are ad hoc, improvisatory, and situational.

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