The Renaissance epic and the oral past
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The Renaissance epic and the oral past

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260 pages 2012

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This volume explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. 16th- and 17th-century poets, Anthony Welch argues came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors.

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