Charles d'Orléans' English Aesthetic: The Form, Poetics, and Style of Fortunes Stabilnes

Author:   R D Perry (Author) ,  Mary-Jo Arn (Customer) ,  Ad Putter ,  Andrea Denny-Brown (Contributor)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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9781843845676


Pages:   307
Publication Date:   18 September 2020
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   R D Perry (Author) ,  Mary-Jo Arn (Customer) ,  Ad Putter ,  Andrea Denny-Brown (Contributor)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   D.S. Brewer
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781843845676


ISBN 10:   1843845679
Pages:   307
Publication Date:   18 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction - R.D. Perry The Two Dreams of Charles d'Orleans and the Structure of His English Book - John A. Burrow Charles d'Orleans' Cross-Channel Poetics: The Choice of Ballade Form in Fortunes Stabilnes - Elizaveta Strakhov The English Roundel, Charles's Jubilee, and Mimetic Form - Jenni Nuttall A Grieving Lover: The Work of Mourning in Charles' First Ballade Sequence - B. S. W. Barootes Charles d'Orleans' English Metrical Phonology - Eric Weiskott The English Poetry of a Frenchman: Stress and Idiomacy in Charles d'Orleans - Ad Putter Verb Use in Charles d'Orleans' English - Richard Ingham Charles d'Orleans and His Finding of English - Jeremy J Smith Aureation as Agon: Charles d'Orleans versus John Lydgate - Andrea Denny-Brown Charles d'Orleans, Harley 682, and the London Booktrade - Simon Horobin The Form of the Whole - Philip Knox Select Bibliography

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[T]his is an excellent and very timely contribution to research and scholarship on Charles, which will hopefully form the groundwork for a renewed appreciation and deeper understanding of his unique and exciting English- language work. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *


[T]his is an excellent and very timely contribution to research and scholarship on Charles, which will hopefully form the groundwork for a renewed appreciation and deeper understanding of his unique and exciting English- language work. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER * Charles d'Orleans' English Aesthetic enjoyably and usefully advances our knowledge. The book offers new findings and new arguments; [...] the editors and chapter authors should pat themselves on their backs. -- THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW (TMR)


[T]his is an excellent and very timely contribution to research and scholarship on Charles, which will hopefully form the groundwork for a renewed appreciation and deeper understanding of his unique and exciting English-­language work. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER * Charles d'Orléans' English Aesthetic enjoyably and usefully advances our knowledge. The book offers new findings and new arguments; [...] the editors and chapter authors should pat themselves on their backs. -- THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW (TMR)


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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.

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