Allegorical Imagery Some Mediaeval Books And Their Posterity

Author : Rosemond Tuve
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691197616

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Allegorical Imagery by Rosemond Tuve Pdf

Examining those medieval texts which were extant for sixteenth-century use and reading, Professor Tuve attempts to discover how certain writers at a given time and for reasons we can trace read the allegorical books of the Middle Ages. Originally published in 1966. 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.

Author : Rosemond Tuve
Publisher : Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Allegory
ISBN : UOM:39076006827567

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Allegorical Imagery; Some Mediaeval Books and Their Posterity by Rosemond Tuve Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Fowler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501724169

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Literary Character by Elizabeth Fowler Pdf

Chaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Beginning with these familiar figures, Elizabeth Fowler develops a new method of analyzing literary character. She argues that words generate human figures in our reading minds by reference to paradigmatic cultural models of the person. These models—such as the pilgrim, the conqueror, the maid, the narrator—originate in a variety of cultural spheres. A concept Fowler terms the "social person" is the key to understanding both the literary details of specific characterizations and their indebtedness to history and culture.Drawing on central texts of medieval and early modern England, Fowler demonstrates that literary characters are created by assembling social persons from throughout culture. Her perspective allows her to offer strikingly original readings of works by Chaucer, Langland, Skelton, and Spenser, and to reformulate and resolve several classic interpretive problems. In so doing, she reframes accepted notions of the process and the consequences of reading.Developing insights from law, theology, economic thought, and political philosophy, Fowler's book replaces the traditional view of characters as autonomous individuals with an interpretive approach in which each character is seen as a battle of many archetypes. According to Fowler, the social person provides the template that enables authors to portray, and readers to recognize, the highly complex human figures that literature requires.

Author : Paul E. Szarmach,M. Teresa Tavormina,Joel T. Rosenthal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351666374

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval England (1998) by Paul E. Szarmach,M. Teresa Tavormina,Joel T. Rosenthal Pdf

First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.

Author : Stephanie A. V. G. Kamath
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843139

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Authorship and First-person Allegory in Late Medieval France and England by Stephanie A. V. G. Kamath Pdf

An examination of medieval vernacular allegories, across a number of languages, offers a new idea of what authorship meant in the late middle ages. The emergence of vernacular allegories in the middle ages, recounted by a first-person narrator-protagonist, invites both abstract and specific interpretations of the author's role, since the protagonist who claims to compose thenarrative also directs the reader to interpret such claims. Moreover, the specific attributes of the narrator-protagonist bring greater attention to individual identity. But as the actual authors of the allegories also adapted elements found in each other's works, their shared literary tradition unites differing perspectives: the most celebrated French first-person allegory, the erotic Roman de la Rose, quickly inspired an allegorical trilogy of spiritual pilgrimage narratives by Guillaume de Deguileville. English authors sought recognition for their own literary activity through adaptation and translation from a tradition inspired by both allegories. This account examines Deguileville's underexplored allegory before tracing the tradition's importance to the English authors Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate, with particular attention to the mediating influence of French authors, including Christine de Pizan and Laurent de Premierfait. Through comparative analysis of the late medieval authors who shaped French and English literary canons, it reveals the seminal, communal model of vernacular authorship established by the tradition of first-person allegory. Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Author : Gerhart B. Ladner
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Images and Ideas in the Middle Ages by Gerhart B. Ladner Pdf

Author : John MacQueen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351982023

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Allegory by John MacQueen Pdf

First published in 1970, this book examines the use of allegory in religious, philosophical and literary texts. It traces the development of the device over time from the Classical period through to the early modern and modern periods, demonstrating its evolution from the transmission of myths and religious beliefs to a literary device.

Author : David Lawton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198792406

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Voice in Later Medieval English Literature by David Lawton Pdf

David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recreate them (as public interiorities) without effacing their history or future. The approach yields important insights into the voice work of late medieval poets, especially Langland and Chaucer, and also their fifteenth-century successors, who treat their work as they have treated their precursors. It also helps illuminate vernacular religious writing and its aspirations, and it addresses literary and cultural change, such as the effect of censorship and increasing political instability in and beyond the fifteenth century. Lawton also proposes his emphasis on voice as a literary tool of broad application, and his book has a bold and comparative sweep that encompasses the Pauline letters, Augustine's Confessions, the classical precedents of Virgil and Ovid, medieval contemporaries like Machaut and Petrarch, extra-literary artists like Monteverdi, later poets such as Wordsworth, Heaney, and Paul Valery, and moderns such as Jarry and Proust. What justifies such parallels, the author claims, is that late medieval texts constitute the foundation of a literary history of voice that extends to modernity. The book's energy is therefore devoted to the transformative reading of later medieval texts, in order to show their original and ongoing importance as voice work.

Author : Isabel Rivers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134844173

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Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry by Isabel Rivers Pdf

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.

Author : Marco Nievergelt
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843843283

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Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to Spenser by Marco Nievergelt Pdf

An examination of sixteenth-century quest narratives, focussing on their conscious use of a medieval tradition to hold a mirror up to contemporary culture. Offers the first full study of the allegorical knightly quest tradition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Richly satisfying, as impressive in the detail of its scholarship as in the elegance of its critical formulations. It seamlessly moves between different literary traditions and across conventional period boundaries. In Dr Nievergelt's treatment of this theme, the successive retellings of the tale of the knight's quest come to stand as an emblemof shifting values and norms, both religious and worldly; and of our repeated failures to realise those ideals. Dr Alex Davis, Department of English, University of St Andrews. The literary motif of the "allegorical knightly quest" appears repeatedly in the literature of the late medieval/early modern period, notably in Spenser, but has hitherto been little examined. Here, in his examination of a number of sixteenth-century English allegorical-chivalric quest narratives, focussing on Spenser's Faerie Queene but including important, lesser-known works such as Stephen Bateman's Travayled Pylgrime and William Goodyear's Voyage of the Wandering Knight, the author argues that the tradition begins with the French writer Guillaume de Deguileville. His seminal Pèlerinage de la vie humaine was composed c.1331-1355; it was widely adapted, translated, rewritten and printed overthe next centuries. Dr Nievergelt goes on to demonstrate how this essentially "medieval" literary form could be adapted to articulate reflections on changing patterns of identity, society and religion during the early modern period; and how it becomes a vehicle of self-exploration and self-fashioning during a period of profound cultural crisis. Dr Marco Nievergelt is Lecturer (Maître Assitant) and SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation) Research Fellow in the English Department at the Université de Lausanne

Author : Richard Kenneth Emmerson,Bernard McGinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801422825

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The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages by Richard Kenneth Emmerson,Bernard McGinn Pdf

An innovative overview of the influence of the Apocalypse on the shaping of the Christian culture of the Middle Ages.

Author : Dinah Wouters
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031171925

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Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen’s Books of Visions by Dinah Wouters Pdf

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge. It describes how the visionary’s use of allegory and allegorical exegesis is linked to theories of cognition, interpretation, and prophecy. It argues that the form of the allegorical vision is not just the product of a medieval symbolic mentality, but specific to Hildegard’s position and the major transformations taking place in the prescholastic intellectual milieu, such as the changing use of Scripture or the shift from traditional hermeneutics to cognitive language philosophy. The book shows that Hildegard uses traditional forms of knowledge – prophecy, the vision, monastic theology, allegorical hermeneutics – in startlingly innovative ways by combining them and by revising them for her own time.

Author : Daisy Delogu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442641877

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Allegorical Bodies by Daisy Delogu Pdf

Author : Maureen Barry McCann Boulton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844143

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Sacred Fictions of Medieval France by Maureen Barry McCann Boulton Pdf

A study of the immensely popular "lives" of Christ and the Virgin in medieval France.

Author : M. J. Toswell,E. M. Tyler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134773398

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Studies in English Language and Literature by M. J. Toswell,E. M. Tyler Pdf

This collection of twenty-nine papers is in honour of E. G. Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Written by scholars he has supervised, examined or otherwise served as mentor for within the last twenty years, the contributors illustrate the advantages of following John Donne's axiom to 'doubt wisely'. Professor Stanley's own published work has shown the utility of wise scepticism as a critical stance; these papers presented to him apply similar approaches to a wide variety of texts, most of them in the field of Old or Middle English literature. The primary focus of the collection is on the close reading of words in their immediate context, which commonly entails a reconsideration of accepted assumptions. Consequently, new links are created here among the disciplines in medieval studies, based on various combinations of these scholarly applications. Contributors provide new analyses of such difficult but rewarding fields as Old English metre and syntax, Beowulf, the origins and development of standard English, the definitions of Old English words and their connotations, the styles and themes of Old English poems, Middle English poetry and prose, the post-medieval reception of medieval works and the styles, themes and sources of Old English poetry and prose. M.J. Toswell is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.E.M. Tyler is Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.