Hic herde a strif bitweies two: A study of the principal Middle English Debate Poems with special reference to the Bird Debates and the Devotional Debates, their analogues and sources
The thesis is an investigation into the Bird Debates and Devotional Debates found in Middle English: emphasis is placed on the origin of the form and themes. In Part One the nature of debate is discussed and is found to be essentially a verbal contest for supremacy between two antagonistic speakers....
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University of Canterbury. English
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4855 |