Free Download Alex Mueller, "Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0814212212, 0814293220 | PDF | pages: 270 | 7.2 mb
For Geoffrey Chaucer and many of his contemporaries, the literary life of England began in ancient Troy. In Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance, Alex Muellerexplores Middle English alliterative romances that challenge this genealogical fantasy and decentralize Troy as the eastern origin of western authority.