Readings In Medieval Poetry

Author : A. C. Spearing
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521311330

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Readings in Medieval Poetry by A. C. Spearing Pdf

Readings in Medieval Poetry is a linked collection of essays on such poems as the Song of Roland, King Horn, Havelok, Sir Orfeo, Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, House of Fame and Troilus and Criseyde, the alliterative Morte Arthure, The Siege of Jerusalem, Purity, Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. The connecting purpose is to open up a variety of kinds of medieval poetry to modern readers; and, while the methods used vary with the kinds of poetry being discussed, they frequently involve, along with historical treatments in terms of medieval practices and systems of ideas, the adoption and adaptation of theoretical frameworks borrowed from outside the medieval field.

Author : David Frame Johnson,Elaine M. Treharne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199261636

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Readings in Medieval Texts by David Frame Johnson,Elaine M. Treharne Pdf

Readings in Medieval Texts offers a thorough and accessible introduction to the interpretation and criticism of a broad range of Old and Middle English canonical texts from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume brings together 24 newly commissioned chapters by a leading international team of medieval scholars. An introductory chapter highlights the overarching trends in the composition of English Literature in the Medieval periods, and provides an overview of the textual continuities and innovations. Individual chapters give detailed information about context, authorship, date, and critical views on texts, before providing fascinating and thought-provoking examinations of crucial excerpts and themes. This book will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students on all courses in Medieval Studies, particularly those focusing on understanding literature and its role in society.

Author : Cristina Maria Cervone,D. Vance Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844464

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Readings in Medieval Textuality by Cristina Maria Cervone,D. Vance Smith Pdf

Essays on a variety of topics in late medieval literature, linked by an engagement with form.

Author : David Chamberlain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015029198374

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New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems by David Chamberlain Pdf

This collection offers new and challenging scholarly interpretations of six major "Chaucerian" love poems from Clanvowe's Cuckoo and the Nightingale (1385) to the early Renaissance Court of Love (c. 1530). This study reveals previously overlooked subtlety and irony of these works, including an original, in-depth look at the neglected icon of this erotic poetry, the hawthorn tree. The contributors' critical approach emphasizes the texts themselves, their cultural context, and the literary tradition of the genre. The focus is decidedly on the poems' likely meaning to their original audiences; Chamberlain sketches fifteenth century literary taste in his introduction. This book contributes to the ongoing debate about the meaning of love in Middle English, and medieval, poetry. Contents: "Under the Schaddow of the Hawthorne Greene": The Hawthorn in Medieval Love Poetry, Susan Schoon Everly and David Chamberlain; Clanvowe's Cuckoo, David Chamberlain; Venus Unveiled: Lydgate's "Temple of Glas" and the Religion of Love, Bryan Crockett; "The air": The Plight of the Courtly Lover, Clair F. James; The Hope for "Pleasaunce": Richard Roos' Translation of Alain Chartier's "La Belle Dame Sans Mercy", Melissa Brown Tomus; "The Floure and the Leafe": An Alternative Approach, Cynthia Lockard Snyder; In Love's Thrall: "The Court of Love" and its Captives, Bonita Friedman.

Author : Stephanie Trigg
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032842273

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Medieval English Poetry by Stephanie Trigg Pdf

The essays in this volume consider a range of poetic texts written in England between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, with the exception of works by Chaucer, and represent some of the exciting new developments in medieval studies over the last twenty years. The collection explores and interrogates the established canon of Middle English poetry and includes several studies of two major poems, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman, and essays on some less well-known works, including Havelok the Dane, The Owl and the Nightingale and The Flower and the Leaf. In a field that has been dominated by historical scholarship and conservative new criticism, Medieval English Poetry brings together some of the most controversial work currently being done in Middle English studies; this collection reveals the strength and depth of this research in feminist, Marxist, historicist, reader-response and deconstructionist method. It includes contributions from David Aers, Sheila Delany, Anne Middleton, and Lee Patterson. Stephanie Trigg's illuminating introduction examines some of the patterns that have emerged in the criticism of medieval literature this century, and pays particular attention to our constructions and definitions of the 'medieval'. The range of material covered, together with the detailed headnotes to each of the thirteen essays and the guide to further reading, make this book essential reading for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of Medieval English Literature.

Author : Carol M. Meale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0859914046

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Readings in Medieval English Romance by Carol M. Meale Pdf

Wide-ranging essays engaging with all aspects of medieval romance, from textual studies to historical sources.

Author : Corinne Saunders
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405159630

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A Companion to Medieval Poetry by Corinne Saunders Pdf

MEDIEVAL POETRY In a series of original essays from leading literary scholars, this Companion offers a chronological sweep of medieval poetry from Old English to the great genres of romance, narrative, and alliterative poetry of the 15th century. Beginning in the Anglo-Saxon period, the volume explores the Old English language and its alliterative tradition, before moving on to examine the genres of heroic, devotional, wisdom and epic poetry, culminating in a discussion of arguably the founding text of the English literary canon, the great epic Beowulf. In part two, the Companion moves on to discuss the linguistic and social changes brought about as a result of the Norman Conquest, exploring how this influenced the development of literary genres. Essays probe the shifts and continuities in genres such as lyric, chronicle and dream vision, and the emergence of new genres such as popular and courtly romance, and drama. A particular focus is the continuation of the alliterative tradition from the Anglo-Saxon period to the fifteenth century. A series of chapters on major authors, including Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, provide fresh approaches to reading and studying key texts, such as The Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Finally, the collection examines cultural change at the close of the medieval period and the variety of literature produced in the ‘long fifteenth century’, including writing by and for women, Scots poetry, clerical and courtly works, and secular and sacred drama.

Author : Laurie A. Finke
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501741883

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Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers by Laurie A. Finke Pdf

This collection brings together twelve original essays by prominent medievalists which address problems posed by contemporary literary and cultural theory. Taken together, the essays call into question the view that contemporary criticism has little to say about medieval literature and that medieval studies should remain isolated from the issues of contemporary criticism. The contributors apply a variety of critical methodologies to explore issues in textuality, intertextuality, and the role of the reader in works of medieval writers as diverse as Chaucer, Dante, Christine de Pizan, Anselm, and Talavera. Incorporating critical approaches such as deconstructionism, Marxism, feminism, new-historicism and reader-response criticism, the essays place these writers and their texts within a wider realm of cultural reference that embraces philosophy, religion, rhetoric, history, politics, and anthropology.

Author : Francesca Brooks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : England
ISBN : 9780198860136

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Poet of the Medieval Modern by Francesca Brooks Pdf

The early Middle Ages provided twentieth-century poets with the material to re-imagine and rework local, religious, and national identities in their writing. Poet of the Medieval Modern focuses on a key figure within this tradition, the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974): representing the first extended study of the influence of early medieval English culture and history on Jones and his novel-length late modernist poem The Anathemata (1952). Jones's second major poetic project after In Parenthesis (1937), The Anathemata fuses Jones's visual and verbal arts to write a Catholic history of Britain as told through the history of man-as-artist. Drawing on unpublished archival material including manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and, most significantly, the marginalia from David Jones's Library, this volume reads with Jones in order to trouble the distinction between poetry and scholarship. Placing this underappreciated figure firmly at the centre of new developments in Modernist and Medieval Studies, Poet of the Medieval Modern brings the two fields into dialogue and argues that Jones uses the textual and material culture of the early Middle Ages--including Old English prose and poetry, Anglo-Latin hagiography, early medieval stone sculpture, manuscripts, and historiography--to re-envision British Catholic identity in the twentieth-century long poem. Jones returned to the English record to seek out those moments where the histories of the Welsh had been elided or erased. At a time when the Middle Ages are increasingly weaponised in far-right and nationalist political discourse, the book offers a timely discussion of how the early medieval past has been resourced to both shore-up and challenge English hegemonies across modern British culture.

Author : Frederic M. Wheelock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Latin language
ISBN : LCCN:77093505

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Latin Literature by Frederic M. Wheelock Pdf

Author : Daniel Sawyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599605

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Reading English Verse in Manuscript c.1350-c.1500 by Daniel Sawyer Pdf

Reading English Verse in Manuscript, c.1350-c.1500 is the first book-length history of reading for later Middle English poetry. While much past work in the history of reading has revolved around marginalia, this book consults a wider range of evidence, from the weights of books in medieval bindings to relationships between rhyme and syntax. It combines literary-critical close readings, detailed case studies of particular surviving codices, and systematic manuscript surveys drawing on continental European traditions of quantitative codicology to demonstrate the variety, vitality, and formal concerns visible in the reading of verse in this period. The small-and large-scale formal features of poetry affected reading subtly but extensively, determining how readers might move through books and even shaping physical books themselves. Readers' responses to one formal feature, rhyme, meanwhile, evince a habitual but therefore deep-rooted formalism which can support and enhance close readings today. Reading English Verse in Manuscript sheds fresh light on poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Thomas Hoccleve, but also shows how their works were read in manuscript in the context of a much larger mass of anonymous poems that influenced canonical poems, in a pattern of mutual influence.

Author : James Simpson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521021111

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Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry by James Simpson Pdf

This study examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower's English poem, the Confessio Amantis (1390-3). James Simpson locates these works in a cultural context dominated by two kinds of literary humanism, in which the concept of self is centered in the intellect and the imagination respectively, and shows the very different modes of thought that lie behind their conceptions of selfhood and education.

Author : R. James Goldstein
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476627564

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The English Lyric Tradition by R. James Goldstein Pdf

Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse--lyrical works written at a time before poetry was assumed to be about personal expression. This readers' guide introduces to a 21st century audience some of the greatest masterpieces of English poetry spanning five centuries. Focusing on poems by Chaucer, Wyatt, Shakespeare, Milton and others, the author discusses the development of poetic technique, explains the rhetorical culture of earlier centuries and describes the various lyric forms--including lover's complaints, sonnets and elegies--that poets used to communicate with readers.

Author : Anatole 1844-1924 France
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101472225X

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Our Lady's Juggler by Anatole 1844-1924 France Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anne Birrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X006197924

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Games Poets Play by Anne Birrell Pdf