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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'Lonesome Words makes a strong contribution to comparative poetics in the typological rather than the genetic sense. McGeachy successfully explores a hierarchy of comparisons from verbal formulæ to social and historical contexts for production in the Old English lament and the African-American blues song. In both corpora she examines themes of wandering, of exile and imprisonment, and of a lost but happier past, and the conclusions she draws from these comparisons are salient and comprehensive.' John Lewis, Associate Professor of English, Southern Methodist University
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lonesome Words
Book Subtitle: The Vocal Poetics of the Old English Lament and the African-American Blues Song
Authors: M. G. McGeachy
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11765-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6291-1Published: 24 March 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-11765-6Published: 23 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 182
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Literature, Music, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature