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UNINA9910142970703321 |
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A concise companion to Middle English literature / / edited by Marilyn Corrie |
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West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1-118-83597-2 |
1-78268-683-5 |
1-282-11638-X |
9786612116384 |
1-4051-8483-3 |
1-4443-0831-9 |
1-4443-0832-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Concise Companions to Literature and Culture |
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English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
Great Britain Civilization 1066-1485 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Marilyn Corrie; Part I Key Contexts; Chapter 1 Signs and Symbols; Barry Windeatt; Chapter 2 Religious Belief; Marilyn Corrie; Chapter 3 Women and Literature; Catherine Sanok; Chapter 4 The Past; Andrew Galloway; Part II The Production of Middle English Literature; Chapter 5 Production and Dissemination; Alexandra Gillespie; Chapter 6 The Author; Jane Griffiths; Part III Writing in Middle English; Writing in England; Chapter 7 Language; Jeremy J. Smith |
Chapter 8 Translation and AdaptationHelen Cooper; Chapter 9 Contemporary Events; Helen Barr; Part IV Middle English Literature in the Post-Medieval World; Chapter 10 Manuscripts and Modern Editions; Daniel Wakelin; Chapter 11 The Afterlife of Middle English Literature; David Matthews; Index |
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This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book explore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' from the literature of other periods. The book includes discussion of such issues as the religious and historical background to Middle English literature, the circumstances and milieux in which it was produced, its linguistic features, and the manuscripts in which it has been preserved. Amongst the great range of writers and writings discu |
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UNINA9910791013903321 |
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition : cultural contexts in Monty Python / / edited by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz ; foreword by Terry Jones |
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Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (170 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Part I: Monty Python's Body and Death; 1 "It's a Mr. Death or Something. He Has Come about the Reaping. I Don't Think We Need Any at the Moment"; 2 The Body, Desire, and the Abject; 3 The Representation of the Woman's Body in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life; Part II: Monty Python, the Fool; 4 Monty Python and the Flying Feast of Fools; 5 "How Fortunate We Are Indeed to Have Such a Poet on These Shores"; 6 The Village Idiot and His Relation to the Unconscious; Part III: Monty Python Goes Abroad; 7 The British Look Abroad: Monty Python and the Foreign |
8 Twentieth-Century Vole, Mr. Neutron, and Spam9 Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus; Part IV: Pythonian Aesthetics and Beyond; 10 Eric Idle |
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and the Counterculture; 11 Kitsch Britannia in Monty Python's Flying Circus; Index; About the Editor and Contributors |
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<span><span>This short collection of essays looks at the television show and films produced by the Monty Python troupe from a number of perspectives:</span></span><br /><ul start=""1"" style=""margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;""><li><span>Gender studies </span></li><li><span>Post-structuralism </span></li><li><span>Psychoanalysis </span></li><li><span>Cultural studies</span></li></ul><span><span> </span></span> |
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