Cannon / Nolan Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature

Essays in Honour of Jill Mann
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84615-926-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cannon, Christopher

Nolan, Maura

Weitere Mitwirkende

Edwards, A. S. G.

Putter, Ad

Windeatt, Barry A

Cannon, Christopher

Pearsall, Derek

Edwards, Elizabeth

Simpson, James

Nolan, Maura

Zeeman, Nicolette

Schmidt, Paul Gerhard

Patterson, Paul

Dronke, Peter

Davis, Rebecca

Calkin, Siobhain Bly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Bibliography of Jill Mann's Works
The Man of Law's Tale and Crusade - Siobhain Bly Calkin
The Language Group of the Canterbury Tales - Christopher Cannon
'Save man allone': Human Exceptionality in Piers Plowman and the Exemplarist Tradition - Rebecca Davis
The Land of Cokaygne: Three Notes on the Latin Background - Peter Dronke
The Canterbury Tales and Gamelyn - A S G Edwards
The Cheerful Science: Nicholas Oresme, Home Economics, and Literary Dissemination - Elizabeth Edwards
The Poetics of Catastrophe: Ovidian Allusion in Gower's Vox Clamantis - Maura Nolan
Preaching with the Hands: Carthusian Book Production and the Speculum Devotorum - Paul Patterson
The Necessity of Difference: the Speech of Peace and the Doctrine of Contraries in Langland's Piers Plowman - Derek Pearsall
Chaucer's Complaint unto Pity and the Insights of Allegory - Ad Putter
Amor in claustro - Paul Gerhard Schmidt
'And that was litel nede': Poetry's Need in Robert Henryson's Fables and Testament of Cresseid - James Simpson
The Art of Swooning in Middle English - Barry A Windeatt
The Theory of Passionate Song - Nicolette Zeeman

Über Autor(innen)

Edwards A. S. G.:
A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury.Putter Ad:
Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.Pearsall Derek:
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.Edwards Elizabeth:
Elizabeth Edwards is a Professor at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaSimpson James:
James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature.