{"product_id":"writing-the-oral-tradition-oral-poetics-and-literate-culture-in-medieval-england-9780268020248","title":"Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Amodio's book focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse produced in England from the fifth to the fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how a living tradition articulated only through the public, performance voices of pre-literate singers came to find expression through the pens of private, literate authors. Amodio argues that the expressive economy of oral poetics survives in written texts because, throughout the Middle Ages, literacy and orality were interdependent, not competing, cultural forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter delving into the background of the medieval oral-literate matrix, \u003ci\u003eWriting the Oral Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e develops a model of non-performative oral poetics that is a central, perhaps defining, component of Old English vernacular verse. Following the Norman Conquest, oral poetics lost its central position and became one of many ways to articulate poetry. Contrary to many scholars, Amodio argues that oral poetics did not disappear but survived well into the post-Conquest period. It influenced the composition of Middle English verse texts produced from the twelfth to the fourteenth century because it offered poets an affectively powerful and economical way to articulate traditional meanings. Indeed, fragments of oral poetics are discoverable in contemporary prose, poetics, and film as they continue to faithfully emit their traditional meanings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting the Oral Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to specialists and students interested in medieval literature, medieval cultural studies, and oral theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark C. Amodio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.78h x 6.00w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268020248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark C. Amodio is professor of English at Vassar College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44232150024307,"sku":"9.78027E+12","price":47.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_391b5c28-71e3-4370-a137-eab620520d2f.jpg?v=1768656550","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/writing-the-oral-tradition-oral-poetics-and-literate-culture-in-medieval-england-9780268020248","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}