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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462188003321

Autore

Dalrymple Roger <1971->

Titolo

Middle English Literature [[electronic resource] ] : A Guide to Criticism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Guides to Criticism

Disciplina

820.9/001

820.9001

Soggetti

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism - Handbooks, manuals, etc

English literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Middle English Literature: A Guide to Criticism; Contents; Contents Arranged by Middle English Author / Text; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Authorship; The Critical Approach (1970); Literary Theory and Literary Practice (1984); Authority (1994); 2 Textual Form; The hoole book (1963); Division and Failure in Gower's Confessio Amantis (1988); 3 Genre; Middle English Narrative Genres (1980); The Religious Tradition (1982); 4 Language, Style, Rhetoric; Early Medieval Narrative Style (1987); The Language of Service and Household Rhetoric (1993); Three Languages (1996); 5 Allegory

Patristic Criticism: The Opposition (1960)The Poets (1967); Intellectual and Religious Interpretations (1975); Allegorical Buildings in Mediaeval Literature (1994); 6 Literature and History; Economics (2001); Constructing Social Realities (2001); 7 Gender; Sexual Economics, Chaucer's Wife of Bath, and The Book of Margery Kempe (1983); Medieval Medical Views of Women and Female Spirituality (1993); Violence as Symbolic Capital in Malory's Morte Darthur (1998); 8 Identity; Characterisation in the English Mystery Cycles (1983)

Community, Virtue and Individual Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1988)Troilus and Criseyde and the Subject of History (1991); Afterword; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field. Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts. Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d'Arthur. Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship,