Imaginings Of Time In Lydgate And Hoccleve S Verse

Author : Karen Elaine Smyth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317118596

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Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse by Karen Elaine Smyth Pdf

Using empirical research to explore medieval writers' imaginings of time, this study presents a new morphology by which to study narratives of time in fifteenth-century literary culture, focusing on poems of John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve. Karen Smyth begins with an overview of medieval time-keeping devices and considers collective and individual attitudes and perceptions of time. She then examines a range of Middle English authors' appropriations and innovations in relation to such perceptions, identifying competitions of tradition and innovation, allowing for an interrogation of commonly accepted medieval theories of time. An empirically based morphology emerges and is used to examine narratives of time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's work. Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of Thebes and of Hoccleve's Regiments of Princes and Series, Karen Smyth looks at expressions of time and examples of the authors' negotiation of time consciousness, illustrating how both poets manipulate a range of cultural narratives of time in order to create multiple and sometimes competing temporalities within a single poem. Smyth simultaneously draws attention to Lydgate's and Hoccleve's underestimated artistic skills and lays out a means to re-evaluate medieval cultural attitudes towards time.

Author : Karen Elaine Smyth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317118602

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Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse by Karen Elaine Smyth Pdf

Using empirical research to explore medieval writers' imaginings of time, this study presents a new morphology by which to study narratives of time in fifteenth-century literary culture, focusing on poems of John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve. Karen Smyth begins with an overview of medieval time-keeping devices and considers collective and individual attitudes and perceptions of time. She then examines a range of Middle English authors' appropriations and innovations in relation to such perceptions, identifying competitions of tradition and innovation, allowing for an interrogation of commonly accepted medieval theories of time. An empirically based morphology emerges and is used to examine narratives of time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's work. Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of Thebes and of Hoccleve's Regiments of Princes and Series, Karen Smyth looks at expressions of time and examples of the authors' negotiation of time consciousness, illustrating how both poets manipulate a range of cultural narratives of time in order to create multiple and sometimes competing temporalities within a single poem. Smyth simultaneously draws attention to Lydgate's and Hoccleve's underestimated artistic skills and lays out a means to re-evaluate medieval cultural attitudes towards time.

Author : Jane Griffiths
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191034381

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Diverting Authorities by Jane Griffiths Pdf

Diverting Authorities examines the glossing of a variety of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts by authors including Lydgate, Douglas, Chaloner, Baldwin, Bullein, Harington, and Nashe. It is concerned particularly with the use of glosses as a means for authors to reflect on the process of shaping a text, and with the emergence of the gloss as a self-consciously literary form. One of the main questions it addresses is to what extent the advent of print affects glossing practices. To this end, it traces the transmission of a number of glossed texts in both manuscript and print, but also examines glossing that is integral to texts written with print production in mind. With the latter, it focuses particularly on a little-remarked but surprisingly common category of gloss: glossing that is ostentatiously playful, diverting rather than directing its readers. Setting this in the context of emerging print conventions and concerns about the stability of print, Jane Griffiths argues that—-like self-glossing in manuscript—-such diverting glosses shape as well as reflect contemporary ideas of authorship and authority, and are thus genuinely experimental. The book reads across medieval-renaissance and manuscript-print boundaries in order to trace the emergence of the gloss as a genre and the way in which theories of authorship are affected by the material processes of writing and transmission.

Author : Sonja Drimmer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812295382

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The Art of Allusion by Sonja Drimmer Pdf

At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose images were integral to the rising prestige of English as a literary language. Yet despite the significance of these images, manuscript illuminators are seldom discussed in the major narratives of the development of English literary culture. The newly enlarged scale of English manuscript production generated a problem: namely, a need for new images. Not only did these images need to accompany narratives that often had no tradition of illustration, they also had to express novel concepts, including ones as foundational as the identity and suitable representation of an English poet. In devising this new corpus, manuscript artists harnessed visual allusion as a method to articulate central questions and provide at times conflicting answers regarding both literary and cultural authority. Sonja Drimmer traces how, just as the poets embraced intertexuality as a means of invention, so did illuminators devise new images through referential techniques—assembling, adapting, and combining images from a range of sources in order to answer the need for a new body of pictorial matter. Featuring more than one hundred illustrations, twenty-seven of them in color, The Art of Allusion is the first book devoted to the emergence of England's literary canon as a visual as well as a linguistic event.

Author : Cynthia Turner Camp
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844020

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Anglo-Saxon Saints Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England by Cynthia Turner Camp Pdf

A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.

Author : Alex Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192592132

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Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare by Alex Davis Pdf

Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who commissions copies upon copies of her genealogy; Elizabethan efforts to eradicate Irish customs of succession; thoughts of the legacy of sin bequeathed to mankind by our first parents, Adam and Eve. This book explores how inheritance was imagined between the lifetimes of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The writing composed during this period was the product of what the historian Georges Duby has called a 'society of heirs', in which inheritance functioned as a key instrument of social reproduction, acting to ensure that existing structures of status, wealth, familial power, political influence, and gender relations were projected from the present into the future. In poetry, prose, and drama—in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and his Canterbury Tales; in Spenser's Faerie Queene; in plays by Shakespeare such as Macbeth, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice; and in a host of other works—we encounter a range of texts that attests to the extraordinary imaginative reach of questions of inheritance between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Moving between the late medieval and early modern periods, Imagining Inheritance examines this body of writing in order to argue that an exploration of the ways in which premodern inheritance was imagined can make legible the deep structures of power that modernity wants to forget.

Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691219691

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Chaucer and His Readers by Seth Lerer Pdf

Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. Lerer shows how the poets, scribes, and printers of the period constructed Chaucer as the "poet laureate" and "father" of English verse. Chaucer appears throughout the fifteenth century as an adviser to kings and master of technique, and Lerer reveals the patterns of subjection, childishness, and inability that characterize the stance of Chaucer's imitators and his readers. In figures from the Canterbury Tales such as the abused Clerk, the boyish Squire, and the infantilized narrator of the "Tale of Sir Thopas," in the excuse-ridden narrator of Troilus and Criseyde, and in Chaucer's cursed Adam Scriveyn, the poet's inheritors found their oppressed personae. Through close readings of poetry from Lydgate to Skelton, detailed analysis of manuscript anthologies and early printed books, and inquiries into the political environments and the social contexts of bookmaking, Lerer charts the construction of a Chaucer unassailable in rhetorical prowess and political sanction, a Chaucer aureate and laureate.

Author : University of California. Center for medieval and renaissance studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 250351569X

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Viator by University of California. Center for medieval and renaissance studies Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105071182377

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The Encyclopedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006753524

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The Nation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2002 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : PRNC:32101079229934

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Encyclopedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UCAL:B3042644

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Edw to Fra by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1996 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : WISC:89018207852

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The Encyclopædia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001104322289

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112124413995

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.