List journal issues    
 
 
Home List journal issues Table of contents Subscribe to JEGP

Book Review

Volume 102 • Number 1

January 2003


 


Language and Piety in Middle English Romance. By Roger Dalrymple. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000. Pp. x + 270. $75.

In Language and Piety in Middle English Romance, Roger Dalrymple undertakes a study of the romance's highly iterative, often pleonastic tag lines and filler phrases and challenges the prevailing view that these phrases are semantically empty devices that serve only a very limited metrical purpose (and no narrative purpose whatsoever). He sees them rather as a subtle and powerfully affective component of the romances and, moreover, he argues that they are used consciously and often with great artistic effect by those who penned the texts in which they appear.

Mark C. Amodio
Vassar College

view PDF
 

 

  

 
Home | Issue Index
 
© 2003 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Content in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology is intended for personal, noncommercial use only. You may not reproduce, publish, distribute, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, modify, create derivative works from, display, or in any way exploit the Journal of English and Germanic Philology database in whole or in part without the written permission of the copyright holder.


Terms and Conditions of Use