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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458847803321

Autore

Patterson Lee

Titolo

Acts of recognition [[electronic resource] ] : essays on medieval culture / / Lee Patterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010

ISBN

0-268-08979-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Disciplina

820/.9/001

Soggetti

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Literature and society - England - History - To 1500

Historical criticism (Literature)

Electronic books.

England Civilization 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Historical criticism and the development of Chaucer studies -- The disenchanted classroom -- Court poetry and the invention of literature: the example of Sir John Clanvowe -- "What is me?": Hoccleve and the trials of the urban self -- Beinecke MS 493 and the survival of Hoccleve's Series -- Making identities in fifteenth-century England: Henry V and John Lydgate -- The heroic laconic style: reticence and meaning from Beowulf to the Edwardians -- Writing amorous wrongs: Chaucer and the order of complaint -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde -- "Rapt with pleasaunce": the gaze from Virgil to Milton -- Brother Fire and St. Francis's drawers: human nature and the natural world.