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Middle English Literature
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Author : George Kane
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-01
Middle English Literature written by George Kane and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Originally published in 1951 Middle English Literature applies methods of literary evaluation to certain Middle English works. Arguing that previous literary criticism has largely focused on the commentary of their historical, social, philological and religious content, the book suggests that it has led to a thinking that Middle English literature is without artistic value and therefore cannot be compared effectively with later works of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. While traditional analysis has been beneficial to scientific and historical findings, this text seeks to look deeper into the artistic merits of the works and the authors that wrote them, arguing that the authors of these Middle English texts, wrote with the same motivations and experiences of these later authors which in turn informed the artistic basis of these Middle English works. The book looks at Middle English texts through three main areas: the Metrical Romances, the Religious Lyrics and Piers Plowman.
Middle English Literature
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Author : Christopher Cannon
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2008-04-07
Middle English Literature written by Christopher Cannon and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function. This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure texts. It encloses those readings in five compelling accounts of much broader cultural areas, describing, in particular, the productive relationship of Middle English writing to medieval technology, insurgency, statecraft and cultural place, concluding with an in depth account of the particular arguments, emphases and techniques English writers used to claim a wholly new jurisdiction for their work. Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.
Readings In Medieval Texts
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Author : David Frame Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Readings In Medieval Texts written by David Frame Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
Readings in Medieval Texts offers a thorough and accessible introduction to the interpretation and criticism of a broad range of Old and Middle English canonical texts from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume brings together 24 newly commissioned chapters by a leading international team of medieval scholars. An introductory chapter highlights the overarching trends in the composition of English Literature in the Medieval periods, and provides an overview of the textual continuities and innovations. Individual chapters give detailed information about context, authorship, date, and critical views on texts, before providing fascinating and thought-provoking examinations of crucial excerpts and themes. This book will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students on all courses in Medieval Studies, particularly those focusing on understanding literature and its role in society.
Reading Middle English Literature
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Author : Thorlac Turville-Petre
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2006-09-25
Reading Middle English Literature written by Thorlac Turville-Petre and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
This introduction provides the guidance that modern readers need to come to an informed appreciation of the writings of medieval England. An introduction to English literature written in the four centuries following the Norman Conquest. Written by the well-known medievalist, Thorlac Turville-Petre. Demonstrates that Middle English literature is more accessible than is often supposed. Provides readers with the guidance they need to come to an informed appreciation of the writings of medieval England. Designed to be used alongside A Book of Middle English, (Third Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2005).
A Concise Companion To Middle English Literature
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Author : Marilyn Corrie
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-12-24
A Concise Companion To Middle English Literature written by Marilyn Corrie and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book explore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' from the literature of other periods. The book includes discussion of such issues as the religious and historical background to Middle English literature, the circumstances and milieux in which it was produced, its linguistic features, and the manuscripts in which it has been preserved. Amongst the great range of writers and writings discussed, the book considers the works of the most widely read Middle English author, Chaucer, against the background of the period that he both typifies and subverts. An accessible resource that examines contexts essential to understanding and interpreting writing of the Middle English period Chapters explore the distinctiveness of Middle English literature Brings together discussion and analysis by an international team of Middle English specialists, incorporating fresh material and new insights Includes analysis of Chaucer's writings, and considers them in relation to the work of his Middle English predecessors, contemporaries and successors Incorporates discussion of issues steering the perception of Middle English literature in the present day
Middle English Literature
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Author : Roger Dalrymple
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2004-07-30
Middle English Literature written by Roger Dalrymple and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field. Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts. Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d’Arthur. Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form. Each critical concern can be used as the basis for one week’s work in a semester-long course. Enables readers to forge new connections between different approaches.
Early Middle English Literature
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Author : Richard Middlewood Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Early Middle English Literature written by Richard Middlewood Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with English literature categories.
The Cambridge History Of Medieval English Literature
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Author : David Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-04-25
The Cambridge History Of Medieval English Literature written by David Wallace and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: After the Norman Conquest ; Writing in the British Isles ; Institutional Productions ; After the Black Death and Before the Reformation . It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers the most extensive and vibrant account available of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.
Sleep And Its Spaces In Middle English Literature
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Author : Manchester University Press
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-29
Sleep And Its Spaces In Middle English Literature written by Manchester University Press and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-29 with categories.
This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet.
Medieval Latin And Middle English Literature
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Author : Jill Mann
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2011
Medieval Latin And Middle English Literature written by Jill Mann and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Fresh and provocative approaches to the literature of the middle ages, offering close readings of texts from Chaucer to Henryson, and beast fable to devotional works. Jill Mann's writing, teaching, and scholarship have transformed our understanding of two distinct fields, medieval Latin and Middle English literature, as well as their intersection. Essays in this volume seek to honour this achievement by looking at entirely new aspects of these fields (the relationship of song to affect, the political valence of classical allusion, the Latin background of Middle English devotional texts). Others look again at the literary kinds and ideas most important in Mann's own work (beast fable, the nature of allegory, the nature of "nature", the relationship of economic thought and literature, satire, language as a subject for poetry) in the poets she hasbeen most drawn to (Chaucer, Langland, Henryson). All of the essays involve close readings of the most careful kind, taking as their primary method Professor Mann's repeated injunction to attend, above all, to the"words on the page". Christopher Cannon is Professor of English, New York University; Maura Nolan is Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley. Contributors: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Christopher Cannon, Rebecca Davis, Peter Dronke, A.S.G. Edwards, Elizabeth B. Edwards, Maura Nolan, Paul J. Patterson, Derek Pearsall, Ad Putter, Paul Gerhard Schmidt, James Simpson, Barry Windeatt, Nicolette Zeeman