Anglo-Norman Language and Literature.
- Author/Editor
- Vising, Johan.
- Title
- Anglo-Norman Language and Literature.
- Published
- Vising, Johan. Anglo-Norman Language and Literature. London: Oxford University Press, 1923. 111 pp.
- Review
- Vising describes the "External History" and "Character" of the Anglo-Norman language, and outlines the history of its literature, with an extensive catalog of works written in Anglo-Norman. Along the way he cites examples from "Mirour de l'Omme" of Gower's awareness of the "internal decay" of the language (27), refers to morphological confusion of "u" and "o" and of "u" and "ui" in Gower's works as identified by Alfred Tanneberger in 1910 (29), and describes MO as the "last considerable representative" of AN literature (39). In his catalog of fourteenth-century AN literature, Vising includes brief descriptions of "Cinkante Balades," MO, and "Traité pour Essampler les Amants Marietz" (72-73; items 360, 369-70) and, in a general discussion of AN versification, attributes Gower's "exceptional" combination of "adherence to English rhythm with the French syllabic system" to him being a "learned man," who "had spent considerable time in Paris" (82)—the latter, an incorrect assertion. [MA. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 43.2]
- Date
- 1923
- Gower Subjects
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference
Language and Word Studies
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification
Mirour de l'Omme
Cinkante Balades
Traité pour Essampler les Amants Marietz