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02695aam a2200361 i 4500 001 6F62B1FA55EF11E58B7A61D1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150908010358 008 140717s2015 enk b 001 0 eng c 020 $a 019870609X 020 $a 9780198706090 035 $a (OCoLC)884242550 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d BDX $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YOU $d INU $d NLGGC $d YDXCP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a PR961 $b .G73 2015 082 04 $a 810/820 084 $a 18.05 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Gray, Douglas, $d 1930- $e author. 245 10 $a Simple forms : $b essays on medieval English popular literature / $c Douglas Gray. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2015. 300 $a ix, 267 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262) and index. 505 00 $t Songs and drama. $t Notes on popular culture -- $t The ocean of story : narrative forms-- $t myth, epic, and heroic lay -- $t Ballads -- $t Popular romances -- $t Folk tale; folk tale into art -- $t Sage, tale, legend -- $t "Merry tale," animal tale, and fable -- $t Proverb -- $t Riddle -- $t Satire -- $t Songs and drama. 520 8 $a 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 culture and the culture of the learned. He argues that medieval society was stratified, in what seems to us a rigid way, but that culturally it was more flexible. Literary topics, themes, and forms moved; there was much borrowing, and a constant interaction. Popular tales, motifs, and ideas passed into learned or courtly works; learned forms and attitudes made their way in into popular culture. All in all this seems to have been a fruitful symbiosis. The book's twelve chapters are principally organised genre, covering epics, ballads, popular romances, folktales, the German sage, legends, animal tales and fables, proverbs, riddles, satires, songs, and drama. 650 0 $a Folk literature, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $y Middle English, 1100-1500 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and folklore $z Great Britain. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019025719.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170706034331.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6F62B1FA55EF11E58B7A61D1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search