Vernacular Literary Theory In The Middle Ages
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Vernacular Literary Theory In The Middle Ages
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Author : Walter Haug
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-03-06
Vernacular Literary Theory In The Middle Ages written by Walter Haug 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 1997-03-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first edition of this book appeared in German in 1985, and set a new agenda for the study of medieval literary theory. Rather than seeing vernacular writers' reflections on their art, such as are found in prologues, epilogues and interpolations in literary texts, as merely deriving from established Latin traditions, Walter Haug shows that they marked the gradual emancipation of an independent vernacular poetics that went hand in hand with changing narrative forms. While focussing primarily on medieval German writers, Haug also takes into account French literature of the same period, and the principles underlying his argument are equally relevant to medieval literature in English or any other European language. This ground-breaking study is now available in English for the first time.
The Idea Of The Vernacular
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Author : Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1999
The Idea Of The Vernacular written by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
This pioneering anthology of Middle English prologues and other excerpts from texts written between 1280 and 1520 is one of the largest collections of vernacular literary theory from the Middle Ages yet published and the first to focus attention on English literary theory before the sixteenth century. It edits, introduces, and glosses some sixty excerpts, all of which reflect on the problems and opportunities associated with writing in the &"mother tongue&" during a period of revolutionary change for the English language. The excerpts fall into three groups, illustrating the strategies used by medieval writers to establish their cultural authority, the ways they constructed audiences and readerships, and the models they offered for the process of reading. Taken together, the excerpts show how vernacular texts reflected and contributed to the formation of class, gender, professional, and national identity. They open windows onto late medieval debates on women's and popular literacy, on the use of the vernacular for religious instruction or Bible translation, on the complex metaphorical associations contained within the idea of the vernacular, and on the cultural and political role of the &"courtly&" writing associated with Chaucer and his successors. Besides the excerpts, the book contains five essays that propose new definitions of medieval literary theory, discuss the politics of Middle English writing, the relation of medieval book production to notions of authorship, and the status of the prologue as a genre, and compare the role of the medieval vernacular to that of postcolonial literatures. The book includes a substantial glossary that constitutes the first mapping of the language and terms of Middle English literary theory. The Idea of the Vernacular will be an invaluable asset not only to Middle English survey courses but to courses in English literary and cultural history and courses on the history of literary theory.
The Idea Of The Vernacular
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Author : Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 1999
The Idea Of The Vernacular written by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with English literature categories.
This anthology collects and analyzes a sample of texts from the late Middle Ages concerned with the writing or reading process. Some 60 prologues and other excerpts are drawn from literary texts as well as from religious, philosophical, historical and other kinds of writing.
Literary Theory And Criticism In The Later Middle Ages
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Author : Ardis Butterfield
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Literary Theory And Criticism In The Later Middle Ages written by Ardis Butterfield 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 2023-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet little-explored terrain between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular literature. Written by a multidisciplinary team of leading international authors, the chapters honour and advance Alastair Minnis's field-defining scholarship. A wealth of expert essays refract the nuances of theory through the medium of authoritative Latin and vernacular medieval texts, providing fresh interpretative treatment to known canonical works while also bringing unknown materials to light.
Vernacular Literary Theory From The French Of Medieval England
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Author : Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
language : en
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Release Date : 2018-03-02
Vernacular Literary Theory From The French Of Medieval England written by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and has been published by D. S. Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-02 with Anglo-Norman literature categories.
Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval England offer a guide to medieval literary theory.
The Cambridge History Of Literary Criticism The Middle Ages
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Cambridge History Of Literary Criticism The Middle Ages written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Criticism categories.
Criticism And Dissent In The Middle Ages
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Author : Rita Copeland
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-06-06
Criticism And Dissent In The Middle Ages written by Rita Copeland 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 1996-06-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
What were the boundaries between 'official' and 'subversive', 'orthodox' and 'dissenting' critical practices in the Middle Ages? Placing medieval critical and intellectual discourses within their cultural and ideological frameworks, Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages examines conflicts of gender, violence, academic freedom, hermeneutical authority, sacramentalism and heresy among so-called official as well as dissenting critical orders. Pedagogies, theories of grammar and rhetoric, poetics and hermeneutics, academic 'sciences', clerical professionalism, literacy, visual images, theology, and textual cultures of heresy are all considered. This 1996 collection of essays by major scholars examines medieval critical discourse, theories of textuality and interpretation, and representations of learning and knowledge - as contesting and contested institutional practices within and between Latin and vernacular cultures.
English Literary Criticism
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Author : J. W. H. Atkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-18
English Literary Criticism written by J. W. H. Atkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
In England literary consciousness had its beginning in the middle ages, and this book, originally published in 1943, describes and illustrates the first phases of the growth of a tradition of criticism. It does not confine itself to writers whose interest was in the vernacular, for there was a larger European movement of which English criticism was a part. It embodied much of the ancient teaching, but it shows recurring efforts to arrive at the nature and art of poetry; it provides a key to contemporary literature and is of great help in understanding what really happened at the 16th Century Renaissance.
Literary Theory And Criticism In The Later Middle Ages
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Author : Ardis Butterfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Literary Theory And Criticism In The Later Middle Ages written by Ardis Butterfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Criticism, Medieval categories.
"Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet little-explored terrain between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular literatures. Written by a multidisciplinary team of leading international authors, the chapters honour and advance Alastair Minnis' field-defining scholarship. A wealth of expert essays refract the nuances of theory through the medium of authoritative Latin and vernacular medieval texts, providing fresh interpretative treatment to known canonical works while also bringing unknown materials to light"--
Practicing Literary Theory In The Middle Ages
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Author : Eleanor Johnson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-12-20
Practicing Literary Theory In The Middle Ages written by Eleanor Johnson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work’s sociopolitical heft and meaning. In Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages, Eleanor Johnson reveals that aesthetics—the formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptible—are indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature. Johnson brings a keen formalist eye to bear on the prosimetric form: the mixing of prose with lyrical poetry. This form descends from the writings of the sixth-century Christian philosopher Boethius—specifically his famous prison text, Consolation of Philosophy—to the late medieval English tradition. Johnson argues that Boethius’s text had a broad influence not simply on the thematic and philosophical content of subsequent literary writing, but also on the specific aesthetic construction of several vernacular traditions. She demonstrates the underlying prosimetric structures in a variety of Middle English texts—including Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and portions of the Canterbury Tales, Thomas Usk’s Testament of Love, John Gower’s Confessio amantis, and Thomas Hoccleve’s autobiographical poetry—and asks how particular formal choices work, how they resonate with medieval literary-theoretical ideas, and how particular poems and prose works mediate the tricky business of modeling ethical transformation for a readership.