Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past

By Anthony Welch

This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cul

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300178867
• ISBN13: 9780300178869
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"