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ROMAN ANGLAIS --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- LITTERATURE POPULAIRE ANGLAISE --- NOUVELLES (GENRE LITTERAIRE) AMERICAINES --- 21E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written texts which have survived from the medieval period and on the popular literature provided by literate authors for audiences of hearers or readers with varying degrees of literacy, Douglas Gray leads new readers to a productively complicated understanding of the relationship between medieval popular culture and the culture of the learned. He argues that medieval society was stratified, in what seems to us a rigid way, but that culturally it was more flexible. Literary topics, themes, and forms moved; there was much borrowing, and a constant interaction. Popular tales, motifs, and ideas passed into learned or courtly works; learned forms and attitudes made their way in into popular culture. All in all this seems to have been a fruitful symbiosis. The book's twelve chapters are principally organised genre, covering epics, ballads, popular romances, folktales, the German sage, legends, animal tales and fables, proverbs, riddles, satires, songs, and drama.

Folk literature, English --- English literature --- Literature and folklore --- Littérature populaire anglaise --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature et folklore --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature populaire anglaise --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature et folklore

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Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publishing phenomenon in its time. In a vivid portrait of this subversive and discomfiting popular literature, Winifred Hughes identifies its ingredients, its practitioners, and its implications, and reveals its significance both for the mid-Victorian consciousness and for the writers and readers of today.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

English fiction --- Sensationalism in literature --- Popular literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- English literature --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- Thematology --- anno 1800-1899 --- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. --- Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism. --- Sensationalism in literature. --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- SENSATIONNALISME DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE POPULAIRE ANGLAISE --- CULTURE DE MASSE --- 19E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE