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Author : James Countryman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00394128U
Author : Ernest N. Kaulbach
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Christian poetry, English (Middle)
ISBN : 0859913570
Exploration of the Arabic psychological theory underlying Piers Plowmanand the interpretive insights this offers. The psychology underlying Passus 8-20 of Piers Plowmanremains unexplored in its entirety, despite single articles on separate psychological personifications. Professor Kaulbach aims to remedy this huge gap in our understanding of Langland's poem, by adducing a psychology which not only illuminates previously mysterious relations between psychological actants, but also reveals that many apparently non-psychological figures (Piers Plowman, for example) are best explained by reference to psychological theory. The body of psychological theory on which the author draws is that of Arabic, specifically Avicennan theory of the prophetic mental act, the `vis imaginativa' or `ymaginatif' in Middle English. Beyond the original interpretative insights offered by this book Professor Kaulbach also describes the intellectual and manuscript context in which Arabic psychology was made available to a late fourteenth century English poet. ERNEST N. KAULBACHis Associate Professor of English, Classics and (occasionally) Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.
Author : Gillian Rudd
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859913929
A fresh approach to ambiguities of language in Piers Plowman. Starting from a consideration of medieval definitions of the word as both logos and verbum, this reading of Piers Plowmanshows that both scholastic and mystic attitudes to language are at play within the poem.Concepts of authority, authorship, interpretation and translation are explored and it is made clear that these are inextricably linked, both in critical debates and in the text itself. The study progresses towards a conclusion that the full potential of language can be realised only when the desire to express things unambiguously is abandoned and ambiguity itself is allowed to be a power and a way of understanding. The rich fabric of Langland's text thusbecomes something to enjoy and participate in, rather than battle with or seek to control. Furthermore, it proves to be a meeting point for medieval and modern theories of text and reading, which are themselves enlivened by this complex and vivid poem. G.A. RUDD lectures in English at the University of Liverpool.
Author : David Aers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351373593
First published in 1980, this study of two renowned later fourteenth century English poets, Chaucer and Langland, concentrates on some major and representative aspects of their work. Aers shows that, in contrast to the mass conventional writing of the period, which was happy to accept and propagate traditional ideologies, Chaucer and Langland were preoccupied with actual conflicts, strains, and developments in received ideologies and social practices. He demonstrates that they were genuinely exploratory, and created work which actively questioned dominant ideologies, even those which they themselves revered and hoped to affirm. For Chaucer and Langland the imagination was indeed creative, involved in the active construction of meanings, and in their poetry they grasped and explored social commitments, religious developments and many perplexing contradictions which were subverting inherited paradigms.
Author : J. Ganim,S. Legassie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137045096
This collection of essays uncovers a wide array of medieval writings on cosmopolitan ethics and politics, writings generally ignored or glossed over in contemporary discourse. Medieval literary fictions and travel accounts provide us with rich contextualizations of the complexities and contradictions of cosmopolitan thought.
Author : Michelle Karnes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226527598
In Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period’s meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imagination in its technical, philosophical sense, taking her cue from Bonaventure, the thirteenth-century scholastic theologian and philosopher who provided the first sustained account of how the philosophical imagination could be transformed into a devotional one. Karnes examines Bonaventure’s meditational works, the Meditationes vitae Christi, the Stimulis amoris, Piers Plowman, and Nicholas Love’s Myrrour, among others, and argues that the cognitive importance that imagination enjoyed in scholastic philosophy informed its importance in medieval meditations on the life of Christ. Emphasizing the cognitive significance of both imagination and the meditations that relied on it, she revises a long-standing association of imagination with the Middle Ages. In her account, imagination was not simply an object of suspicion but also a crucial intellectual, spiritual, and literary resource that exercised considerable authority.
Author : Ritva Palmén
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004279452
In Richard of St. Victor’s Theory of Imagination, Palmén advances a detailed analysis of the ideas about imagination of Richard of St. Victor (d. 1173), dealing with epistemology, the interpretation of biblical language, metaphors, rhetoric, and even the possibility of creative imagination.
Author : Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135652821
This collection of newly written essays provides a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this poem, including an exploration of its relevance to contemporary literary theory and to 14th century culture and ideology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123018371
Author : M.-T. Bindella,Geoffrey V. Davis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004503076
Imagination and the Creative Impulse in the New Literatures in English brings together the proceedings of a symposium organised by the editors at the University of Trento in 1990. At a time when the study of the post-colonial literatures is gaining more widespread recognition, scholars based mainly at universities in Italy and Germany were invited to address the manner in which writers are giving literary expression to the complexity of contemporary post-colonial and multicultural societies and to consider, from their differing perspectives on the new literatures, central questions of formal experimentation, linguistic innovation, social and political commitment, textual theory and cross-culturality. Focusing on such major writers such as Achebe, Soyinka and Walcott, as well as on lesser-known figures such as Jack Davis, Witi Ihimaera, Rohinton Mistry and Manohar Malgonkar, the contributors take up many themes characteristic of the new literatures: the challenge posed to traditional authority, the expression of national identity, the role of literature in the liberation struggle, modes of literary practice in multicultural societies; the relationship of the new literatures in English to that of the former metropolitan centre; and the complex intertextuality characterizing much of the literary production of post-colonial societies.
Author : Andrew Cole,Andrew Galloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107009189
A comprehensive study of the fascinating medieval poem Piers Plowman, consolidating the most enduring work with groundbreaking new research.
Author : Fellow of King's College Cambridge and Newton Trust Lecturer in English Nicolette Zeeman,Nicolette Zeeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521856102
This ambitious study links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Zeeman's radical approach opens up a completely fresh reading of Piers Plowman and sheds light on the history of medieval psychology.
Author : William Langland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520062302
Author : George Kane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520330160
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Author : L. Holley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230339248
This collection makes the compelling argument that Chaucer, the Perle -poet, and The Cloud of Unknowing author, exploited analogue and metaphor for marking out the pedagogical gap between science and the imagination. Here, respected contributors add definition to arguments that have our attention and energies in the twenty-first century.