Dalrymple Middle English Literature

A Guide to Criticism
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75544-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Guides to Criticism

Middle English is a student guide to the most influentialcritical writing on Middle English literature.
* * A student guide to the most influential critical writing onMiddle English literature.
* Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities inthe field.
* Introduces readers to different critical approaches to keyMiddle English texts.
* Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including TheOwl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morted'Arthur.
* Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship,genre, and textual form.
* Each critical concern can be used as the basis for oneweek's work in a semester-long course.
* Enables readers to forge new connections between differentapproaches.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dalrymple, Roger

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Arranged by Middle English Text/Author.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Authorship:.
John Lydgate: The Critical Approach: Derek Pearsall (1970).
Literary Theory and Literary Practice: Alastair Minnis.
Authority: Tim William Machan (1994).
2. Textual Form:.
The Hoole Book: Derek Brewer (1963).
Division and Failure in Gower's Confessio Amantis: HughWhite (1988).
3. Genre:.
Middle English Narrative Genres: Paul Strohm (1980).
The Religious Tradition: Piero Boitani (1982).
4. Language, Style, Rhetoric:.
Early Middle English Narrative Style: A.C. Spearing (1987).
The Language of Service and Household Rhetoric in the Letters ofthe Paston Women: Diane Watt (1993).
Three Languages: Thorlac Turville-Petre (1996).
5. Allegory:.
Patristic Criticism: The Opposition: E. Talbot Donaldson(1960).
The Poets: Siegfried Wenzel (1967).
Intellectual and Religious Interpretations: Kathryn Hume(1975).
Allegorical Buildings in Medieval Literature: Jill Mann(1994).
6. Literature and History:.
Constructing Social Realities: Helen Barr (2001).
Economics: John Bowers (2001).
7. Gender:.
Sexual Economics: Chaucer's Wife of Bath and The Book ofMargery Kempe: Sheila Delany (1983).
Medieval Medical Views of Women and Female Spirituality in theAncrene Wisse and Julian of Norwich's Showings: ElizabethRobertson (1993).
No Pain, No Gain: Violence as Symbolic Capital in Malory'sMorte Darthur : Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Schichtman(1998).
8. Identity:.
Characterisation in the Mystery Cycles: A Critical Prologue:David Mills (1983).
'In Arthurus Day': Community, Virtue, and IndividualIdentity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: David Aers (1988).
Troilus and Criseyde and Subjectivity: Lee Patterson (1991).
Afterword.
Bibliography.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Dalrymple is Tutorial Fellow in English at St Hugh's College, Oxford. He is the author of Language and Piety in Middle English Romance (2000) and Associate Editor of the journal Arthurian Literature