Rereading Middle English Romance
Author | : Murray James Evans |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1995 |
ISBN-10 | : 0773512373 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780773512375 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Download or read book Rereading Middle English Romance written by Murray James Evans and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on features of layout and decoration in manuscripts containing Middle English romances, Murray Evans discusses how these details signal generic and structural relationships among texts. Using a computer-assisted survey to tabulate and quantify features of decoration and presentation in fifteen manuscript collections, including the "Auchinleck" MS and Cambridge University Library MS Ff.2.38, he demonstrates that romances are decorated more generously than other kinds of texts.