Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature

by Douglas Gray

Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written texts which have survived from the medieval period and on the popular literature provided by literate authors for audiences of hearers or readers with varying degrees of literacy, Douglas Gray leads new readers to a productively complicated understanding of the relationship between medieval popular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019870609X
• ISBN13: 9780198706090
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"