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Charles d'Orléans' English Aesthetic

The Form, Poetics, and Style of Fortunes Stabilnes
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New investigations into Charles d'Orleans' under-rated poem, its properties and its qualities. The compilation Fortunes Stabilnes, the English poetry Charles d'Orleans wrote in the course of his twenty-five year captivity in England after Agincourt, requires a larger lens than that of Chaucerianism, through which it has most often been viewed. A fresh view from another perspective, one that attends to form and style, as well as to the poet's French traditions, reveals a more conceptually complex and innovative kind of poetry than we have seen until now. The essays collected here reassess him in the light of recent work in Middle English studies. They detail those qualities that make his text one of the most accomplished and moving of the late Middle Ages: Charles's use of English, his metrical play, his felicity with formes fixes lyrics, his innovative use of the dits structure and lyric sequences, and finally, above all, his ability to write beautiful poetry. Overall, they bring out the underappreciated contribution made by Charles to the canon of English poetry.

Author Biography:

R.D. PERRY is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. MARY-JO ARN is an independent scholar, and editor of Fortunes Stabilnes. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. Jenni Nuttall is Lecturer in English at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She has written books on Lancastrian literature and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, as well as articles on Middle English literary language and poetic forms. Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020). PHILIP KNOX is University Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. R.D. PERRY is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.
Release date NZ
September 18th, 2020
Contributors
  • Contributions by Ad Putter
  • Contributions by Andrea Denny-Brown
  • Contributions by B. S. W. Barootes
  • Contributions by Elizaveta Strakhov
  • Contributions by Eric Weiskott
  • Contributions by Jennifer Nuttall
  • Contributions by Jeremy J. Smith
  • Contributions by John A. Burrow
  • Edited by Mary-Jo Arn
  • Edited by R.D. Perry
Pages
307
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Dimensions
157x241x26
ISBN-13
9781843845676
Product ID
33111720

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